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.
Two Methods:Use Macros with Excel (Except for Excel 2008 for Mac)Use Macros with Excel 2008 for MacCommunity Q&A. Sometimes a spreadsheet has a process that has to be repeated with some regularity. You can set up a macro to repeat that process easily without requiring you to go through all the steps. Understand how to use macros in Excel to save time. 1. Verify that your Excel preferences allow you to run macros.