Proposals for the subsidy of a telegraph line to California were made in Congress throughout the 1850s, and in 1860 the U.S. Post Office was authorized to spend $40,000 per year to build and maintain an overland line. The year before, the California State Legislature had authorized a similar subsidy of $6,000 per year.
Click OK on the dialogue box and your text is centred. That's the long way round. Clicking the centre icon on the toolbar is much easier - it's a very useful Macro built in to Microsoft Word. A Macro is a way to create a shortcut for a task that you do a lot. You can create your own macros. The macro we're going to create in the next section is a very simple one, but macros don't have to be simple. You can open up the Visual Basic editor and create a very complex macro indeed.
Overview of macros and VBA. If you are unfamiliar with macros and VBA in general, you may find the following information helpful. A macro is an action or set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. You can record macros by using the Record Macro command (Developer tab, Code group).Macros are recorded in the VBA programming language. You can inspect and edit your macros in the Visual Basic Editor, a window that is opened by Excel. macro is an action or set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. You can record macros by using the Record Macro command (Developer tab, Code group). Macros are recorded in the VBA programming language.