PDF opens in AI with text changed to gibberish

I'm trying to import some labelled pie charts I made, in Excel 2011, into AI CS5. I want to edit the art and text in Illustrator (vectors, natch). The pies and lines come in just fine, but the text is garbled.
If I do any of the following, the text from Excel comes in as garbled, scrambled gibberish:
Copy a chart in Excel, then paste into AI
Save Excel Spreadsheet as PDF, then Place it in AI
Save Excel Spreadsheet as PDF, then drag & drop it into AI
Print just a selected "Print Area" in Excel to PDF, then Place it in AI
Print just a selected "Print Area" in Excel to PDF, then drag & drop it into AI
Have you ever solved this problem, or a similar one?
Do you have any ideas that might help me?

Bless ye, sir. That did the trick!
Weird, because I have that font (yep, it's Calibri) and I can choose it and use it in AI... but I changed Calibri to Arial in Excel, as you suggest, and I'm able to paste from Excel.
Thanks very much!

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