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.
What is the use of macro? How do we create macro in Excel? Macro is set of instruction which are stored in Visual Basic module which will make excel to perform commands and actions for you by running them. Excel can repeat a task at any time by using macro. It allows to perform repetitive and complex tasks which you perform regularly.The easiest way to create a macro is to record a macro, Excel stores information about each step you take as you perform a series of commands. You then run the macro to repeat, or play back, the commands.