How to manage custom document properties (e.g., company name, project name)

Hi,
How to manage custom document properties (e.g., company name, project name, event date...) in Apple iWork Pages like it is possible in Microsoft Office Word ?
The idea is to simplify the management of multiple instances of same piece of information in a document by writing them once as a "properties" of the document that can be referencing in different places of the document. Changing the property value, will automatically change all its instances.
Thanks in advance for your help

Thanks for your help Peter.
Search-Replace and Auto-Substitution are not requivalent for me since I'm looking for something more complex.
Suppose you have a document about an Event which occur on a specific date (e.g., 11-09-2003).
In your document, you may be interested in...
- sometimes display the date as '11-09-2003',
- sometimes display the date as 'Novembre, 2003',
- sometimes display the date as 'Sunday, November 9, 2003'.
With a document property, you would be able to define the EventDate as 11-09-2003, and then define different specific format (e.g., 'mm-dd-yyyy', 'mmmm, yyyy'...) for each reference to the EventDate document property.
Using Search-Replace of Auto-Substitution, it will be painful since you will have to define as one token per format of a document property (e.g., EventDateAsMMDDYYY, EventDateAsMMMMYYYY...).
More than that, suppose you have a Numbers table inserted in your Pages document.
You may be interested in using some document properties in formulas.
This can't be solved using Search-Replace.
But its ok, I will wait until this feature will be supported in Pages.

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