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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!

Apple’s new Numbers software doesn’t support custom number formats. That means you can’t use a real value of 10,000,000 but display it as 10M. This is a deal-breaker for me. Hopefully, 1.1 will fix this missing feature. (I’d also like to see full AppleScript support. Heck, any AppleScript support!)

I already stopped by the Apple Store Soho to pick up iLife and iWork ‘08. They didn’t have it yet. I want to get my hands on Numbers. Finally, Apple is fully back in the business game. The only reason I use Word and PowerPoint is for group projects (and only when I have to share files). Most group presentations I do in Keynote now, because the people who work with me understand what a superior presentation they’ll get if they allow me. Let’s see if Excel stays in my regular stable of applications. I kinda doubt it.

Now all I need is a Keynote viewer for Windows…