diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/README.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/README.adoc
index e2150c49..07ca5c3c 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/README.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/README.adoc
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-include::intro.adoc[]
 
 [[building]]
 = Building
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/appendix.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/appendix.adoc
index 5b5f5601..d9935105 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/appendix.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/appendix.adoc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 [[common-application-properties]]
 = Common application properties
 
-include::_attributes.adoc[]
 
 Various properties can be specified inside your `application.properties` file, inside your `application.yml` file, or as command line switches.
 This appendix provides a list of common {project-full-name} properties and references to the underlying classes that consume them.
@@ -11,6 +10,4 @@ This appendix provides a list of common {project-full-name} properties and refer
 NOTE: Property contributions can come from additional jar files on your classpath, so you should not consider this an exhaustive list.
 Also, you can define your own properties.
 
-include::_configprops.adoc[]
 
-include::_observability.adoc[]
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
index 0e73a468..e69de29b 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-include::spring-cloud-commons.adoc[]
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/intro.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/intro.adoc
index 095535e8..05ef0f68 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/intro.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/intro.adoc
@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ Spring Cloud facilitates these styles of development in a number of specific way
 Many of those features are covered by https://projects.spring.io/spring-boot[Spring Boot], on which Spring Cloud builds. Some more features are delivered by Spring Cloud as two libraries: Spring Cloud Context and Spring Cloud Commons.
 Spring Cloud Context provides utilities and special services for the `ApplicationContext` of a Spring Cloud application (bootstrap context, encryption, refresh scope, and environment endpoints). Spring Cloud Commons is a set of abstractions and common classes used in different Spring Cloud implementations (such as Spring Cloud Netflix and Spring Cloud Consul).
 
-include::jce.adoc[]
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-commons.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-commons.adoc
index 8611e259..84d72333 100644
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-commons.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/spring-cloud-commons.adoc
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 [[cloud-native-applications]]
 = Cloud Native Applications
-include::_attributes.adoc[]
 
-include::intro.adoc[]
 
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