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- [Instructor] The Employee Handbook Draft document is in the chapter two exercise files. This is a long document, 23 whole pages long. But sometimes when I'm working with a long document, I don't mean 23 pages, I don't even mean 80 pages. I have documents that I've worked with that are 200 pages long, 300 pages long. And if those documents also include illustrations, as this document does, then simply loading that document and scrolling around the document is taking a lot of local memory, a lot of resource. Let me say that again. Sometimes I'd like to be able to focus on sections of my document and edit them more quickly. If I want to work on, for example, section one, Introduction, I don't necessarily want to load the entire document if it's another 200 or 300 pages. I have had users tell me that in order to fix this what they do is they simply load the first 100 pages into one file, the next 100 into another, or perhaps 50 and 50. Please, please, please, don't do that, because Word…

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