Reusing a Query and retaining applied steps

The easiest way I have found to perfrom this that doesn't involve extensive effort is by grabbing the code from the query while in "edit query mode" (right-click the query and select "advanced editor").  I have copied everything in the editor and then created a blank query in my other report. After pasting everything into the blank query, it ran and applied every step from the prior, as if it were a copy, but it was not dependant on the original source.  Actually, i had to resolve a few minor errors since i had made updates to the query in my first report which referenced queries not yet in my new one, so i applied the same steps to copy the referenced queries over and all was well within 5 minutes total!