The templates that LiveCycle Designer copies to the user profiles are stored in the program directory,
For example: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Designer 8.2\EN\Templates".
These template directories exist for each language installed.
Step 1: Copy the template directories to a backup directory, a directory for common usage, or both.
Step 2: Delete those templates from the LiveCycle Designer program directory which are not required. You can also try to rename the Template directory to something else. For example rename the template directory as follows:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Designer 8.2\EN\OLDTemplates".
Step 3: In each template directory exists a file named "LocalTemplates.xml":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<templateTabSet default=".\Blank\Letter.tds"> <tabname="Blank" directory=".\Blank\" /> <tabname="Forms" directory=".\Common Forms\" /> <tabname="Forms - Vanilla" directory=".\Style7\" /> <tabname="Forms - Beige" directory=".\Style1\" /> <tabname="Forms - Blue" directory=".\Style9\" /> <tabname="Other" directory=".\Other\" /></templateTabSet> Edit these files to match the paths to the common directory. Both, Windows conventions and UNC paths can be used.
Example: <tabname="Forms - Blue" directory="c:\LC_templates\Style9\" />