Delete a table of contents - Help and How-to

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Delete a table of contents

Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003

On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and click Outlining.
On the Outlining toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), click Go to TOC .
The table of contents is selected.
Press DELETE.

Notes

You can also select the table of contents manually and press DELETE.
To delete a table of contents in a Web frame (frames: The named subwindow of a frames page. The frame appears in a Web browser as one of a number of window regions in which pages can be displayed. The frame can be scrollable and resizable, and it can have a border.), you must position the insertion point inside the frame that contains the table of contents. To delete the entire frame, click Delete Frame on the Frames toolbar.