title: Magento set customer my account layout to one column
body: <p>I am currently using the latest version of Magento 1.7.0.2. After a customer logs on they are presented with the typical 2 column my account details with the navigation menu in the left hand position. I need to have this navigation deleted so that my dashboard page becomes only one column. I also don't want the empty space of the left navigation after it's deleted. I have tried the  thing in local.xml but what happens is that the navigation menu in the customer my account is removed BUT also any page with a left sidebar loses that sidebar as well.
  Please not that I'm running a custom template and the only customer.xml file is in app/design/frontend/base/default/layout. My local.xml is in /app/design/frontend/default/custom_template/layout.</p>
  
  <p>How would I be able to do this and what is the path for the files I need to edit. Any help is greatly appreciated. Here is the code for the customer my account layout in the customer.xml
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  <pre><code>&lt;customer_account translate="label"&gt;
      &lt;label&gt;Customer My Account (All Pages)&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;!--remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar"/&gt;
      &lt;remove name="sale.reorder.sidebar"/--&gt;
      &lt;!-- Mage_Customer --&gt;
      &lt;reference name="root"&gt;
          &lt;action method="setTemplate"&gt;&lt;template&gt;page/1column.phtml&lt;/template&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="content"&gt;
          &lt;block type="page/html_wrapper" name="my.account.wrapper" translate="label"&gt;
              &lt;label&gt;My Account Wrapper&lt;/label&gt;
              &lt;action method="setElementClass"&gt;&lt;value&gt;my-account&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;/block&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  
      &lt;reference name="left"&gt;
          &lt;block type="customer/account_navigation" name="customer_account_navigation" before="-" template="customer/account/navigation.phtml"&gt;
              &lt;action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"&gt;&lt;name&gt;account&lt;/name&gt;&lt;path&gt;customer/account/&lt;/path&gt;&lt;label&gt;Account Dashboard&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
              &lt;action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"&gt;&lt;name&gt;account_edit&lt;/name&gt;&lt;path&gt;customer/account/edit/&lt;/path&gt;&lt;label&gt;Account Information&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
              &lt;action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"&gt;&lt;name&gt;address_book&lt;/name&gt;&lt;path&gt;customer/address/&lt;/path&gt;&lt;label&gt;Address Book&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;/block&gt;
          &lt;block type="checkout/cart_sidebar" name="cart_sidebar" template="checkout/cart/sidebar.phtml"&gt;
              &lt;action method="addItemRender"&gt;&lt;type&gt;simple&lt;/type&gt;&lt;block&gt;checkout/cart_item_renderer&lt;/block&gt;&lt;template&gt;checkout/cart/sidebar/default.phtml&lt;/template&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
              &lt;action method="addItemRender"&gt;&lt;type&gt;grouped&lt;/type&gt;&lt;block&gt;checkout/cart_item_renderer_grouped&lt;/block&gt;&lt;template&gt;checkout/cart/sidebar/default.phtml&lt;/template&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
              &lt;action method="addItemRender"&gt;&lt;type&gt;configurable&lt;/type&gt;&lt;block&gt;checkout/cart_item_renderer_configurable&lt;/block&gt;&lt;template&gt;checkout/cart/sidebar/default.phtml&lt;/template&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
          &lt;/block&gt;
          &lt;block type="catalog/product_compare_sidebar" name="catalog.compare.sidebar" template="catalog/product/compare/sidebar.phtml"/&gt;
          &lt;remove name="tags_popular"/&gt;
  
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  &lt;/customer_account&gt;
  </code></pre>