Exporting Selected Features from a Shapefile in ArcMap

The video explains a process for exporting portions of a larger shapefile. In this case, the goal was to take only a portion of the counties in shapefile and create another shapefile altogether that only contains a fraction of the counties. This smaller boundary can then be used for trimming larger statewide datasets or used simply as a representation technique.
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