Niall,Thanks for all the help here.  Drop down 1 works but Drop down 2 stll doews not give me the controls.control.itemNo associated with the selection in Drop Down 1.  I think if these worked the way I wanted them to I could figure out how to get the associated text to display.Thanks,Eagle

Sorry, my brain is fried right now...  Corrected URL:  http://www.xua-llc.com/dropdownformr1.pdf

OK, here is my form again.  Since I cannot expand & wrap a drop down I need to take a different approach.  This is what I came up with.Any feedback is welcome.  If this is not the right approach I am open to any ideas.Thanks again for all the assistance.http://www.xua-llc.com/dropdownlistr1.pdfEagle

I am still trying to get my head around this.  If I were a programmer I am sure it would be much easier.  I am going to take a good look at this and see if I can figure it out.  If I can't within the next hour or so I will post my form and see if anyone can assist me.Thanks for all the feedback I re...

OK let me try it this way.  I have a repeatable subform that has a number of user input items in it.  I have created a drop down on another page that is populated with content from the subform and all works well.  I can retreive any user input field value and populate the drop down.One of the fields...

Once again I must be missing something.  I am not working with rows, I am working with repeating subforms that do not have rows.  I am simply trying to get the rawValue of the this.rawValue = this.parent.index + 1; field on the form.  Since the subform is repeating each one is numbered and I want to...

I have yet another dumb question.  I have a subform with a field displaying the instance number for that form.  It is in layout:ready this.rawValue = this.parent.index + 1;How do I retrieve the value of that field for use elsewhere on the form?  I have tried getting the value as itemno.rawValue but ...

BarlaeDC,Thank you, Thank You, Thank You,That is EXACTLY what I was trying to do......Thanks Again,Eagle

Yes, and No...  I was able to do this before.  The second drop down shows ALL instances of the sub-items, I only want it to display the sub items associated with the Item selected in drop down 1.  For example if I have Item 1, sub-items 1 and  2 and Item 2, sub-item 3 and sub item 4 when I select it...

Here is a copy of the form.  I would greatly appriciate any assistance....http://www.xua-llc.com/dropdownform.pdfThanks,Eagle