Hi - This may or may not help with your issue, but our team like many others has also encountered this issue. We seem to have found a solution, so I'm hoping someone could find this helpful. Quick background: I help maintain a couple versions of cptx files our team shares, both of which use their own custom themes. During the process of bringing both themes and "templates" up to the v11.5 upgrade, we've seen this exact same Update Missing Fonts dialog box using Myriad Pro. Similar to the comments in this thread, only some people were getting the alert. I was NOT receiving it, but the majority of my teammates were, so we at least had something to compare.
Interestingly, these same people who got the dialog box for "project A" also got a dialog box for "project B", only with project B a second font was missing. This time it was MyriadPro-Semibold. After some back and forth with some teammates, we found that I and only a few others had the MyriadPro font installed (with 10 different font faces). No one else on the team even had MyriadPro installed on their devices by default. And as far as I know, everyone but maybe a very small number are on Windows 10.
Next, I searched every single object in each Master slide, theme fonts, object styles, Skin & TOC levels, everything I could think of that may be the reason for the system even saying MyriadPro was in either project. I could not locate a single instance in either file, and I surely don't remember using it. (doesn't mean I didn't at one time, but still I couldn't locate it used anywhere so really found it interesting)
I thought, well, maybe it's simply carried over as a part of the custom theme as a font that should be available? By this time I had read through multiple discussions here, many of the linked discussions and Adobe Help articles people referenced, etc., so I knew in previous versions these "missing fonts" were silently being replaced with another. So, I went into my C drive > Windows > Fonts, and located the MyraidPro font group and simply slid the entire set onto my desktop (removed it from the Fonts folder) completely. Immediately upon opening a new project in my default theme, the dialog popped up and said MyriadPro was missing. I may still be wrong, but I then realized that this font was included in my custom theme, and since my teammates did not have it installed they were getting the dialog box but i wasn't.
For us, the FIX ended up being for me to re-save both themes again without MyriadPro included as an available font to use. After sending the themes back out to the team, each member deleted their old themes and added the updated ones. Now, for new projects, no one is seeing this dialog.
I must note however, for older files saved in the previous version, we are seeing the dialog box (since Myriad is not installed) and are simply choosing to replacing with Arial Regular (which is our main font used). In the end, I'm sure there is an instance of MyriadPro somewhere in the files, the problem is I can't locate it. I wish I knew of a way to see every single font used and where it's being used, in a single spreadsheet. (maybe there is and I just don't know it)
Anyway, yes this is a frustrating issue to fix. The fact that clicking Close actually replaces the missing fonts is also really unclear. Many of my teammates had already done this and were confused by it since there are no clear instructions included in the dialog saying this is the behavior that will take place. You need to read that in one of these threads or in Adobe Help. Hopefully this helps someone diagnose why they're getting the alert as well.
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