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.
You can apply this macro to a template or to an existing document. If you add this macro to the template, Word will save it with every new document you create. In other words, every document you create (based on that template) will execute this macro every time you open it.hen, create a new document. Word will open a new blank document and display a simple greeting in a message box. Click OK to close the message. (The macro is simple on purpose as this technique is about the event procedure and its relationship to a template.