Why are Cells in Excel referenced with a single index?
Our Excel parser was the last of the Microsoft Office parsers to be developed. By the time we got to Excel, the convention of addressing objects by a name and a single index has already been well established, and our navigation tree did not support a double index. The programmers decided to continue with the single index convention to number the Cells, and then the location information (row and column) were included in the Cell properties. [Table of Contents] Why cant Shapes be extracted a second time with Content Browser? The Content Browser has a hidden copy of the document open for reference. When you select a Shape in the navigation tree, the Content Browser also selects that Shape in the hidden document just like you would select the Shape. When you extract the document, the Content Browser uses that selection to make a copy of the Shape before it is scanned. The process of extracting the object cancels the selection in the hidden document, so the Shape is no longer selected after