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 cell A1, enter âSome text,â and then press Enter. Click Record Macro. In the Record Macro dialog box, type a name for the macro in the Macro name box. For example, type BoldMe. Donât use any spaces in the name. In the Store macro in box, pick Personal Macro Workbook > OK. This is the most important step, because if you don't already have a Personal Macro Workbook, Excel will create one for you. Click in cell A1 and press Ctrl+B to apply bold formatting. Thatâs the only step in the macro. Click Developer > Stop Recording.