Twenty years ago the designers of previous newspaper layout systems developed a word processor called Describe. They included a simple macro that was great for templates.
The macro scanned your document for markers, any word betweem "<<" and ">>" it then open a dialogue with each unique marker-word next to a text field. Once you clicked the dialogue's o.k. it filled the document with the substitute values. Simple, effective, productive :) I can't see that OpenOffice has a similar item yet. I would love if it could have two versions - one that just did a simple once-off text replacement, and a second that maintained the unique tags as AutoText fields that could be used for later universal updates of the document as needed.
