Autotext function in Word - is there a Pages equivalent?

I use the autotext function in Word a lot to save keystrokes, but cannot find an equivalent in Pages. No-one else has raised this so I may be missing something really easy.

4,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
There's an Auto-Correction feature in Preferences whose intention is really to correct misspelled words. But there's no reason it can't be used to automate keystrokes.
-Dennis

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