Thank you guys for the replies. I am very green at macros and coding so my apologies for not being able to explain as good as i should. The selecting an entry from each drop down shown is part of another process that currently works properly. Upon automatic file creation it writes those selected custom properties to the word document. I then want to have the values that are in the custom properties used to select the corresponding checkboxes so the user doesn't have to check them manually. I'll try to make a screen cast and post, maybe that might help. Thanks again