Missing Fonts... Why?!

For some reason, I periodically get the message that fonts are missing in my document or in my template and they're always "MS" fonts... which I assume means Microsoft.
I never use (for example) ArialMS but for some random reason today I opened a proposal I was working on and it said "ArialMS" and "ArialBoldMS" were missing. I've had this problem before but it's been a while and I'm darn sure I never used any of these fonts in my document.
What gives? This is beyond simply irritating, this is ruinous... it's costing me time and productivity. Please help!
Thanks!

Hi Travis
I suspect that you once had the Office Test Drive installed which introduced the fonts and then took them away when you uninstalled. Unfortunately the fonts are just called Arial in the user interface so you have no idea that you are using them when creating documents but I think you probably did use them when creating the documents now giving you the issue.
Unfortunately, I don't know of an automated way of 'fixing' it so that your document uses the Apple supplied Arial fonts instead.

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