This week's top tips

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The password provides some protection when sending documents back and forth. But you'll be asked for a password each time you open the PDF in the future. That can get annoying fast. Thankfully, there's an easy way to remove password protection from any PDF. You can do it with software you already have on your computer — and it can do much more than remove passwords from PDFs, too. ⌚ This entire email will take you two minutes to read. Remember: If you'd rather not receive these Monday tip roundups, [you can easily opt out of them](=) without affecting the rest of your subscription. ☑ [Got it — don't show this again](=)​ This week's reader suggestion 🔑 You'll sometimes come across a password-protected PDF. You may want to store that PDF for the future — without remembering the password. Luckily, there's an easy way to remove the password protection in your PDF viewer of choice. 💻 This works on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. ➜ This week's tip comes from Windows Intelligence reader Ted. If you ever want to remove password protection from a PDF, first just open the PDF and provide the password to view it normally. Then, print that PDF as a PDF. The resulting PDF won't have a password. For example, in Google Chrome, you can click menu > Print, select the "Save as PDF" printer, and then save the PDF as a new PDF file. (It's a good idea to give your resulting PDF a once-over to ensure everything looks right before you delete the original password-protected document, of course.) [Printing a PDF in Google Chrome.] This trick highlights another useful feature that is easy to miss: These days, Windows comes with a built-in PDF printer named "Microsoft Print to PDF." You can "print" any document to a PDF file in nearly any Windows application. Just click the "Print" button in whatever application you're using (or press Ctrl+P) to open the Print dialog. Then, choose "Microsoft Print to PDF" as your printer. This will "print" the document to a PDF file, which you can store anywhere you like. [The Microsoft Print to PDF printer in Notepad's Print dialog on Windows 11.] Microsoft added this PDF printer to Windows with the release of Windows 10. Before then, you had to hunt down a third-party PDF printer application — or you had to print to an XPS file. (The XPS file format was an attempt by Microsoft to replace PDFs with its own file format, and it failed.) It's easy to forget Windows has this convenient option built in these days. ⌚ Looking for this week's Android Intelligence reader tip? It's all about [a clever way to get reminders about messages in the future](. Read it here! ​ 💡 Got a useful tip you'd like to share with other Windows enthusiasts? [Submit it here](=) — or just reply to this email and share it with me! I'd love to feature your useful advice in a future newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------- Some tips you don't want to miss Now, a rapid-fire summary of the best useful tips from our most recent issues — just in case you overlooked something or haven't explored it yet! 🌎 Discover an entirely new way to browse the web: Web browsers haven't changed much in the last decade. Arc is a trendy new browser that reimagines how you work with tabs and bookmarks. It just launched on Windows PCs after building a devoted following on Macs. [Learn more about how Arc works in my review](. ⌨️ Access system tray icons with a keyboard shortcut: You may already know that you can use keyboard shortcuts like Windows+1, Windows+2, and so on to activate taskbar icons. But what about system tray icons? Just press Windows+B to highlight your system tray and then you can use the arrow keys and Enter key to access your system tray with the keyboard. 🔋 See which apps are draining your laptop battery: Windows can show you which applications are using the most battery — just like modern smartphones can. On Windows 11, head to System > Power & battery > Battery usage. Look under "Battery usage per app." On Windows 10, head to System > Battery and look under "Battery usage per app." 📊 Cya, pie charts: Large data sets can be a little, erm, intimidating. But with a little knowhow, you can use data to identify trends, tell stories, and create new ideas — just [download the FREE Introduction to Data Visualization!]() This course teaches you how to turn raw data sets into compelling charts, maps, and graphs, just like the pros. No Stats PhD required! Ready to WOW your colleagues? [Download the Intro to Data Visualization course]() today! 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