Deleting User Account and associated files

How can I delete a user and the accounts associated files and documents ONLY for that user account?

Thanks for the speedy responses. No, I'm not trying to restrict users. I am selling my iMac and wanted to leave the programs in tact for the new user and just wipe everything off that is associated with me. I have MS Office Suite on the iMac and offered to leave it there for the person I'm selling to since I don't use it anymore anyway. I think in deleting my user account, I lost the Office Suite. I'm just in the middle of it all right now so not 100% sure. Thanks so much for your good help.

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hi,
I'm a parent volunteer helping to admin a mac lab at my son's K-5 public school. The lab is running o/s 10.5 server on a mini with about 30 imacs as clients.
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