Deleting an unwanted template

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Rogieboy Author

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Deleting an unwanted template

How to I delete a template?

IMac 3.2GHz Intel Core i3, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 8, 2011 1:24 PM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Jan 8, 2011 1:34 PM in response to Rogieboy

Which kind of template ?

(1) one delivered by Apple with iWork

(2) a custom one no longer useful.

In case 1, it would be a very bad idea.

In case 2, you delete it exactly as you delete an other file.

Navigate to the folder :

<startupDisk>:Users:<yourUserAccount>:Library:Application Support:iWork:Numbers:Templates:My Templates:
and move the unwanted files to the trash.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 8 janvier 2011 22:34:35

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Answer 2

Mar 18, 2011 12:35 PM in response to Rogieboy

Did you ever receive a satisfactory a satisfactory answer to your question? The ones that I have seen are not correct. The other answers I could not follow. I am still very puzzled. Glennon47

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fruhulda

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Mar 18, 2011 12:44 PM in response to Glennon47

If it is a custom template you have the answer in Yvan's posting above.

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KOENIG Yvan

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Mar 18, 2011 2:25 PM in response to Glennon47

Glennon47 wrote:
Did you ever receive a satisfactory a satisfactory answer to your question?

Deleting custom templates is described in my message.

Templates delivered by Apple are stored in the application's package and I repeat that deleting some of them is a bad idea.

I don't know which would be the behavior of an updater if some templates are removed and, as long as the next major release isn't delivered, we may assume that a new upgrade may be offered.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 18 mars 2011 22:25:21

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SaabGirl

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Mar 23, 2011 6:20 AM in response to Rogieboy

Are you asking how to delete a template page from something like PAGES?? For instance, if I open PAGES and select a newsletter, then create a ten page newsletter, but I don't want page 8, I can delete it by looking at the left side bar that shows all the pages of the newsletter. I click once on page 8 to highlight it, go up to EDIT and then scroll down to DELETE PAGE.

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KOENIG Yvan

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Mar 23, 2011 9:20 AM in response to Glennon47

Glennon47 wrote:
Did you ever receive a satisfactory a satisfactory answer to your question? The ones that I have seen are not correct. The other answers I could not follow. I am still very puzzled. Glennon47

Often, it's useful to *_read carefully_* !

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 23 mars 2011 17:20:08

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Answer 7

Mar 23, 2011 10:05 AM in response to Glennon47

Glennon47 wrote:
Did you ever receive a satisfactory a satisfactory answer to your question? The ones that I have seen are not correct. The other answers I could not follow. I am still very puzzled. Glennon47

And we are puzzled what you don't understand because you haven't said.

Peter

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Answer 8

kgpmcn

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Sep 8, 2011 1:11 PM in response to Glennon47

Hi.

I will make a guess that you are puzzled because you could not find the file string specified.

Specifically, you couldn't find the "Library" folder under your

"<startupDisk>:Users:" string?

I had exactly the same problem. Then I sussed it out.

Under 10.7, at least, this folder is flagged as "Hidden" (...can't have those users fiddling, can we?).

If you can't see it, you can't follow it down to the offending files.

I googled "show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7" and got this and it worked!

Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion - MikeSel.info

It involves using a Terminal session, but are we men or mice? (Squeak up!!)

There is a similar fix for 10.6. There are also various 3rd party utilities which will do this for you.

Some of which are mentioned here:- (N.B. He talks about the Option button, on the UK keyboard this is the Alt button)

http://appleheadlines.com/2011/08/02/three-ways-to-show-hidden-files-on-mac-os-x -lion/

I was using MainMenu in 10.6 and the Old Techie in me made me switch on "Display hidden files" automatically, so I didn't come across this problem then. It was only when I upgraded to 10.7 that I wondered where the Library folder had gone.

Hope this helps!

Cheers.

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Peggy

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Sep 8, 2011 2:46 PM in response to kgpmcn

kgpmcn,

What you say is correct in Lion, but the rest of the posts in this thread are from 6 months ago, at least 4 months before Lion was released. Your post just doesn't apply to this thread.

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Answer 10

nsilco

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Sep 10, 2011 7:48 AM in response to Peggy

Many, many thanks, Peggy, I've now got rid of the templates I created by mistake in Lion. Your method (in your reply - which I can't locate, now) was much more straight-forward than using Terminal (Squeak)

Norman

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Answer 11

Sep 11, 2011 10:20 AM in response to Rogieboy

Thank you very much! This was a complete success.

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