Charts/ Graphs in Google Document

[Mark]

One of our HS science teachers is working toward digital lab write ups in google docs.  She is looking to have the entire write up, including the data chart and graph to appear in the lab doc write up.  Much like you can do in Word, is there a way for students to accomplish this in google docs?

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[Laura Michaels]

On Jun 4, 8:05 am, Mark <mstur...@keenecentralschool.org> wrote:
> One of our HS science teachers is working toward digital lab write ups in
> google docs.  She is looking to have the entire write up, including the
> data chart and graph to appear in the lab doc write up.  Much like you can
> do in Word, is there a way for students to accomplish this in google docs?

I'm not very familiar with what Word does, but I believe Google docs
should handle standard graphics and you can convert charts and graphs
to graphic files and embed in documents. There are several Open
Source options for creating graphs and charts and converting them to
graphics files. One that I like that comes to mind is GLE
http://glx.sourceforge.net/

[Tony Tomasello]

The web clipboard is you friend for this, create the chart and graph in a Docs spreadsheet, then select the graph and use the menu in the upper right corner to "copy chart", that will copy it to the web clipboard which you can use to paste it into a Docs word processing document.  If you select the part of the sheet you want to copy as a chart and use the web clipboard to copy it, that will keep it in table format when you paste it into the document.  It's not exactly the way Word does it but it's pretty easy.

https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1409533