alistair - sorry for delay have responded!

you could probably do it through the GUI but it's not an auditable process within a controlled production environment so no use to me other than testing.

ps. this takes out an object

--do this in the publishing database

exec dbo.sp_dropsubscription  @publication='mypublication',@article='myobjecttodrop',

@subscriber='MYSERVER'

exec dbo.sp_droparticle @publication='mypublication',@article='myobjecttodrop',

@force_invalidate_snapshot=1

exec dbo.sp_refreshsubscriptions  'mypublication'

go

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