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Visio Web Page Search Function Skips -1

I have a Visio page which contains shapes named with various alpha-numeric combinations (e.g. XYZ-2). When I publish this page to a web page, and use the search function, I encounter the following behavior.  In some cases a search for XX-1 will skip over XX-1 and instead return XX-10, XX-11, and XX-12….  In another case, a search for YY-1 returns YY-1.  I have tried taking a shape that the search has found and renaming it with a -1 name which the search is skipping and have the same results.  So I am thinking it is not the shape that is being missed.  Any thoughts or suggestions regarding the cause and remedy here?
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I found that if I renumber xzy-1 contol names to read xyz-01, this solves the problem.  Search can pick up "01"even  when it misses "1". I am still curious, however, about this behavor and what might explain it.
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Are these by chance network shapes? Have you made any use of layers?

There's a layer-related bug with web export and search that I'll have to go lookup, but I thought I'd ask first.
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Its a basic rectange shape, not sure if it came from the network collection, as it something that was passed along to me.  I have assigned the shapes to layer.  Thanks
Chris -- the layer problem related to network shapes came up recently in this question. If GWAllen is using a rectangle and not one of the computer and network stencils, it might not be related.

I created a simple-minded diagram to try to reproduce the problem and was not able to. I've attached the diagram -- is this similar to what you are using that fails, GW?
shape-search-test.vsd
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Something like that.  The shape name is set to link to the primary key name in an Excel sheet. So the name is taken from a data set linked to the shape.  When it is published in Visio to a web page, there is a search feature on the left hand side of the web page.  This search function skips some of the XX-1 controls, returning instead the XX-10 control.  If I change the key to read XX-01, search can then return it.  I am not certain as to the orgin of the orginal shape as I have inherited this project.
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