Removing/substituting a "missing font" from a document

Hey all!
I removed some unused fonts from my system, and now some of my Pages documents raise up the "missing font" error on opening, although all styles used in the document use the fonts that are in the system. Perhaps some of the blank paragraphs may have "traces" of those old fonts.
So is there a way to do a "substitute font" procedure? Or do I have to manually select all paragraphs and make sure the style they use is based on an existing font?
Thanks,
Artemiy.

Artemiy,
check this posting, where Dale Gillard published an AppleScript to change missing font names by other names: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2212786#2212786
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