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.
In the Macro in drop-down, select Word commands. 4. In the Macro name box, scroll to find ListCommands and select it. 5. Click the Run button. 6. When the List Commands box appears, select Current menu and keyboard settings for an abbreviated list or All word commands for an exhaustive list. 7. Click the OK button. A table of the commands will appear in a new document.