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.
Export the Word macro from your document. With the macro that you recorded in Step 1, follow these next steps to export the macro: Open the document or template containing the macro that you want to export. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.reate the blank Word template. Open a new Word document. On the File menu, click Save As. Name your file global_macros.dotm. From the Format drop down, select Word Macro-Enabled Template (*.dotm) as the Format. Choose where you want to store the file on your network.