Tonight I opened the font dropdown from the Properties menu and typed H ... and it dropped me a few hundred fonts down to Helvetica, where I happily kept scrolling for a few more fonts to settle on my choice. This open and type scheme also works in Photoshop; I'm asuming it probably works in other applications, too.
It seems pretty simple and obvious, but I've never noticed in the years that I've been working in Flash on OSX.

