Drop Down Dependant for a whole column

Ian_A85

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Hi All,

Im stuck!! Im trying to create a form for which column E is issues and column F is sub catergories of those issues. So the user isnt faced with hundreds of sub cats' each time, Im taken to dependant drop downs.

Now comes my predicament, I can get the system working for the 1st cell, but not the rest of the collumn:

for example, E2 shows the issue, and F2 shows the subs via using =INDIRECT(E2).

However, each line will be a new issue, but that code will only show the subs for the issue selected in E2. How can i get it to target the next line (E3, E4, E5 etc) without manually setting the data validation for each line (as there is planning on being well over 2000, and that would get boring!!)
 

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