L.2.3.2 File Architecture

There is a single shared strings part for all the strings in a workbook. This part is related to the workbook. Each cell (in sheet1.xml, for example) containing a string value refers by index to a string

Shared Strings

Sheet1

Sheet 2

expressed in the shared strings part. The solid arrows represent relationships among the parts and the dotted arrows represent references by index to a string in the shared strings part.