In the palette you can designate a VI to "Place VI Contents" (used to be "Merge VI" in LV 7.1).
I typically drop most VIs from the Project Explorer now.
It would be handy to designate VIs in the Project in the same fashion, so you could drop the "VI Contents" from a Project selection.
I admit I only use "merge VIs" about 0.01% of the time but today was one of those days.
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