Hi Greg
Create named lists of the vairous drop-downs you want.
Do a data validation, and in the Source, do ifs
=if($A$1="XXX",LIST1,if($A$1=YYY,LIST2,ERROR)) etc

Cheers
Louis

"Greg" wrote:

I'm trying to use a dropdown box that after choosing will create choices for
dropdown box 2.
box 1:
1
2
3
box 2:
1 orange
1 blue
1 green
2 yellow
2 purple
2 black
3 etc etc etc

Any idea?
thanks in advance, greg