diff --git a/docs/_src/tutorials/tutorials/8.md b/docs/_src/tutorials/tutorials/8.md
index bae35a5a4..cabe68e9e 100644
--- a/docs/_src/tutorials/tutorials/8.md
+++ b/docs/_src/tutorials/tutorials/8.md
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ and [Optimization](https://haystack.deepset.ai/docs/latest/optimizationmd) pages
 # This is a default usage of the PreProcessor.
 # Here, it performs cleaning of consecutive whitespaces
 # and splits a single large document into smaller documents.
-# Each document is up to 1000 words long and document breaks cannot fall in the middle of sentences
+# Each document is up to 100 words long and document breaks cannot fall in the middle of sentences
 # Note how the single document passed into the document gets split into 5 smaller documents
 
 preprocessor = PreProcessor(
diff --git a/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.ipynb b/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.ipynb
index dd34847bb..5056df911 100644
--- a/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.ipynb
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
     "# This is a default usage of the PreProcessor.\n",
     "# Here, it performs cleaning of consecutive whitespaces\n",
     "# and splits a single large document into smaller documents.\n",
-    "# Each document is up to 1000 words long and document breaks cannot fall in the middle of sentences\n",
+    "# Each document is up to 100 words long and document breaks cannot fall in the middle of sentences\n",
     "# Note how the single document passed into the document gets split into 5 smaller documents\n",
     "\n",
     "preprocessor = PreProcessor(\n",
diff --git a/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.py b/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.py
index 9659e1a37..99392cdf4 100644
--- a/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.py
+++ b/tutorials/Tutorial8_Preprocessing.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def tutorial8_preprocessing():
     # This is a default usage of the PreProcessor.
     # Here, it performs cleaning of consecutive whitespaces
     # and splits a single large document into smaller documents.
-    # Each document is up to 1000 words long and document breaks cannot fall in the middle of sentences
+    # Each document is up to 100 words long and document breaks cannot fall in the middle of sentences
     # Note how the single document passed into the document gets split into 5 smaller documents
 
     preprocessor = PreProcessor(
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def tutorial8_preprocessing():
         clean_whitespace=True,
         clean_header_footer=False,
         split_by="word",
-        split_length=1000,
+        split_length=100,
         split_respect_sentence_boundary=True,
     )
     docs_default = preprocessor.process([doc_txt])