Using Microsoft Paint and Office 2007 Graphing Pictures on the Coordinate Plane

Go to Microsoft Paint

From the Edit menu select Paste From...

Select the picture you want to draw and 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 select Zoom.

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.

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

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