I'll work on this and see if I can figure it out. I've named the category items Cat 1 Item 1 and so on, only to reference them to Category 1 and same with Category 2, etc. My final project will have names for the categories and probably a 2 or 3 work for items. Each category will have different items as well as different number of items to select from. But if I select Category 2 I want only the items associated with category 2 to be in the drop down list below. Same with category 5, the drop down lists will only have category 5 selection in the drop down lists.

thanks
mike