Deleting TOC entries and topics

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Deleting TOC entries and topics

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Topics and their TOC entries are two different things. The topic content is actually stored in the topic file, which is stored in the Project Files section of the Explorer. The TOC entry is really just a hyperlink to the topic file, which is stored in the Table of Contents section of the Explorer. When you click on a TOC entry the topic file is displayed in the editor for editing, but this is just for convenience. there are not actually any topic files in the TOC, when you click on a TOC entry and edit the topic you are actually editing the file stored in the Topic Files section.

Click to expand/collapseHow to delete TOC entries

1.Select one or more entries in the Table of Contents section in the Project Explorer. You can select multiple entries with Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click.

2.Press the DEL key or right-click and select Delete Topic. The following dialog is displayed:

DLG_deltoc

If you deselect the Also delete referred topic files option only the TOC entry/entries will be deleted. This will result in topics without TOC entries in the Topic Files section.
Click to expand/collapseHow to delete topic files

1.Select one or more entries in the Topic Files section in the Project Explorer. You can select multiple entries with Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click.

2.Press the DEL key or right-click and select Delete File. The following dialog is displayed:

DLG_delfile

If you deselect the Also remove TOC references option only topic files be deleted. This will result in TOC entries without any links to topic files. This is not normally desirable but you may sometimes want to do this to reassign an existing TOC entry to a different topic.