### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/2512

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<sup>Originally posted by **iusgit** September 20, 2022</sup>
Hi,

first thanks for this wonderful tool!

I created a book project and one output format is a docx (unfortunately... I'm not a friend of this, but the project commands it).

My book looks like this:
```
book:
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - content/Chapter_01.qmd
    - content/Chapter_02.qmd
```

File `index.qmd` is empty, I would get an error during rendering if I would remove it. However, with file `index.qmd` comes automagically an additional chapter that is unwanted and in my opinion not useful at all.

Any idea how to unset the additional chapter?

Help is appreciated!
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dragonstyle
2022-09-22T14:38:57Z
dragonstyle
enhancement books
v1.4
open
Add Support for Books With No `index.qmd` File
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/2556