Global Changes

Hello forum,
I'm a graphic designer for a print shop and consider myself an educated Illustrator user. There's one thing in particular I'm looking for, however, and don't believe Illustrator has the feature. In my doubt I figured I'd ask the wealth of knowledge that is the Adobe forums and hope for a better solution.
I've got a a business card template with 8 different cards on it. I've set all the colors to a global color allowing me to change them all at once. My question is how many other things can I set to the global setting?
Fonts? Different images? An entire template that alters all copies in the same manor Smart Objects do in Photoshop?
Thanks for your help.

Symbols can contain most anything. With Symbols you can swap multiple Instances of the same Symbol with Instances of another Symobol. You can globally select all the Instances of a given Symbol.
Variables are like fields in a database (sort of). You bind objects as Variables in four, and only four types: Text. Graph Data, Linked File, and Visibility. You can then change the content or visibility state of the bound Variables and store the current combination as a Data Set. You can then swap out the Data Sets, somewhat like flipping through records in a database. But you cannot place multiple instances of the same Variablle "field" on the page.
For typographical global changes, use Character and Paragraph Styles.
For Appearance-based global changes, use Graphic Styles.
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