Worksheet Drawings

Within the drawing*.xml file is contained a single worksheet drawing <wsDr> element, which is the parent element for all the drawing elements. Its child specifies the anchoring properties of the drawing elements. It is within this element that the main specifications for the drawing elements are located. For example in the above screenshot with a simple shape located on the worksheet, the XML for this would look like:

<xdr:wsDr>
  <xdr:absoluteAnchor>
    <xdr:pos x="2162175" y="1743075"/>
    <xdr:ext cx="1238250" cy="1314450"/>
    …
    </xdr:sp>
  </xdr:absoluteAnchor>
</xdr:wsDr>

In this <SpreadsheetDrawingML> code there is a single drawing specified almost exactly as it would within the regular DrawingML framework. However the <SpreadsheetDrawingML> wrapper that is used allows for the specifying of spreadsheet specific properties in addition to the normal drawing properties.