Template & File Deletion

In iWork '08, how do I completely delete items in "My Templates" and "Existing Files"?

montgomery wrote:
In iWork '08, how do I completely delete items in "My Templates" and "Existing Files"?
As in every app in AppleLand, you quit the application, you navigate to the folder with the Finder and you delete the useless files.
Applications are made to edit or read documents, not to trash them.
I assume that it's a design choice introduced for safety.
I really don't know where is the folder "Existing Files" and I don't know what is a file which doesn't exist
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 29 juin 2009 18:11:39)

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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 16 septembre 2011 11:11:30
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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XML publisher report with a template file missing

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but in
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Have a look at following post and run the sql in this post to see if your template definition is missing.
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Links to MS Office template files (dotx, potx, xltx, ...)

Hi every one,
I'm using Acrobat Pro 7 for an interactive Project Handbook. Meaning there're are steps to acomplish in order to set up and manag a project according to certain guide lines.
With this handbook I provide an overwiev of the whole document from where
each chapter and
each document that has to be filled for project management
can be reached. To do this I'm using the linking tool of Acrobat.
I couldn't find any post in this forum that looks like my problem so I opened a new post.
Problem description:
As long as I link PDFs together every thing is fine. But as I'm providing Word and Excel template files, thing get messy.
When linking from a PDF to, lets say a *.dotx (Word template), the link works. But in stead of creating a new "Untitled.doc" from the template, it opens the template to be modified.
Use case:
The file "MyTemplate.dotx" is in a sub-directory where the "Overview.pdf" is in. When double clicking in Windows explorer on "MyTemplate.dotx" an new "Untitled.docx" is created.
When linking from "Overview.pdf" to "MyTemplate.dotx" and using that link, "MyTemplate.dotx" is opened the same way as if a right-click and choosing "Open" under Windows explorer was performed.
Workaround:
In order to have an "Untitled.docx" generated from the template I don't link to the template any more. Instead I use a batch file with the following command:
[start "" "directory\directory\MyTemplate.dotx" exit].
This command is written in a "Workaround.bat" file to whitch the Overview.pfd is linked to.
With this solution, the template opens as a new "Untitled.docx" and it's fine.
New Problem:
Using a batch file is detected as a thread on certain PCs. When a link to a *.bat file is used on such a PC, a dialog box "Security warning" shows up saying "Un allowed link with file:/path/folder/..../Workaround.bat" leaving only 2 choices: clicking on Help or on OK and not being able to launch the batch.
Final Question:
How to tell Acrobat to create a new document from a template fil *.dotx" and not open it to edit the template?
I want to thank you for your precious help, I'm really stuck at this point.

Here is how to completely remove Office for Mac 2011:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768

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