Suppress TOC in Aggregated Project

After banging my head against the CP5 wall for a while, I finally split my 157 page project into 2 halves and now each will publish without errors. I used Aggregator to glue them back together which worked fine, except for the annoying left hand pane which has suddenly appeared. I think its the TOC.
Can the TOC be suppressed in the aggregated project? It doesn't add anyting in this case and just gets in the way.
Thnaks.

By default, Aggregator uses the TOC from one of the projects it contains to govern the look and feel of the main TOC.
You can elect to Hide the TOC via the Aggregator Publish Settings.
Just tick the option to Hide Table of Contents

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