using microsoft paint and office 2007 graphing pictures on the coordinate plane
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Using Microsoft Paint and Office 2007
Graphing Pictures on the
Coordinate Plane
Go to Microsoft Paint
From the Edit menuselect Paste From...
Select the
picture you
want to drawand
click on Open.
Click on Start and bring up MS Word.
From the Insert menu
select Table .
Try 35 columns and 30 rows.
From the View menu selectZoom.
Try 170%.
The idea is to fill your screen with the grid...
before you click Control-Print Screen on the
keyboard...which places your grid on
the clipboard.
Restore Microsoft Paint
Select Transparency Selection from the Select
menu.
Select Paste from the Edit menu.
Highlight points with integral coordinates, i.e., are at gridline intersections.
Highlight points with integral coordinates, i.e., are at gridline intersections.
•Open a new worksheet in Microsoft Excel
Looks like this
Enter all the coordinates of the
gridded picture into the Excel document
SAVE YOUR EXCEL
DOCUMENT!
Highlight the coordinates
From the Insert ribbon, go to Charts
Select X-Y Scatter Chart Type
Select Scatter with Straight Lines
and Markers
Results should look similar to this, but more
importantly, like the original
picture
Acitivity adapted from www.colin.edu/gedonline