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.
Create a macro with a keyboard shortcut. Click View Macros Record Macro. Type a name for the macro. To use this macro in any new documents you make, be sure the Store macro in box says All Documents (Normal.dotm) . To run your macro when you press a keyboard shortcut, click Keyboard.o run a macro, click the button on the Quick Access Toolbar, press the keyboard shortcut, or you can run the macro from the Macros list. Click View Macros View Macros. In the list under Macro name, click the macro you want to run. Click Run.