Unable to find Missing Fonts

I opened an Illustrator file which indicated that I was missing some of the fonts. I went under Type in the menu to locate the fonts and replace them. That worked as expected for all but 2 fonts. For some reason when I click on those fonts, I get the annoying "ding" sound which indicates that the text which utilizes that font can't be found. I have all layers unlocked. I've tried going into Document Setup/Type and telling Illustrator to highlight substituted fonts, but nothing is highlighted. How do I find and replace these fonts?
As far as viewing and printing, all the visible type appears to have been changed, but every time I open the file I get the annoying dialogue box telling me that fonts are missing. I can live with it if I have to, but I would love to get rid of it!

Cynthia:
Did you check all the Symbols for possible existence of non-existent fonts?
As a work-around, you could of course select the entire content of the file (assuming that the instances of the non-existent font are not selectable), start a new file, in the layer palette flyout locate Paste Remembers Layers, then paste the content, save the file and tun off Paste Remembers Layers.
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