What to do with iWork licence if reinstalling Snow Leopard

I need to reformat my disk and reinstall Snow Leopard. I have a Family pack iWorks 09. What do I need to do to reinstall iWorks after I reinstall SL? Any issues about the licence that I should be aware of? Also what do I need to do to recover any of the templates I have created in Pages?
Thanks.
Stephen

Hi Stephen
If you have the DVDs and had no serial number just reinstall.
If you had a DL and a serial just use that serial number when you reinstall.
Your personal templates are stored in:
~/Library/Application Support/iWork/Pages/My Templates unless you put them somewhere else.
Just back them up and drag them back to the same location after the reinstall.
I suggest you use *Carbon Copy* to make a compressed back up of your entire HD and mount and use that to get all your old stuff back after the reinstall. OSX has succeeded in becoming as complex if not more so than Windows (and the crowds cheered for more!), so I would not count on you having manually located everything you are going to miss after the reinstall.
Peter

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