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.
Task: Because macros allow instructions to be executed automatically, they are the target of computer viruses. Learn how you can turn off the automatic macro features to protect yourself when a virus is on the loose. Assignment: Open Microsoft Word and click the Help icon located at the right of the Menu bar. When the Word Help dialog box appears, enter macro virus protection and click Search. Select the Enable or disable macros in Office documents topic and answer the following questions.