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When I tried to print thirty separate Word documents at school today, I found that the printer I chose to send my document to was not working – and all that time I spent printing from Word seemed wasted. Ugh.

When  you print on OS X, it opens up a printer queue that lists the files you are printing. If the printer is not working, the files just sit there in the list, teasing you. First, I thought that maybe I could find where those files were stored. But then I thought, hey, maybe I can drag them to another printer queue…yes! You can drag printed files from one printer queue (in this case, the one that wasn’t working) into another printer queue, and it will print! No re-printing necessary.

This also led me to figure out a trick to printing secured PDFs that force you to print to the default printer (and not to a PDF writer) so I can read and highlight the text on my computer, and not print it out. (I leave it to you to figure out how I do that, as I’m fairly certain it breaks a user agreement or two.) Thanks, Apple!