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Cascading Unique Drop down lists

Asked by sp70 in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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Hello,
Pardon the lack of proper verbiage in my description of this problem.
I am attempting to have a cascading set of drop down lists, one of which contains Unique values.  I have briefly looked here:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/MS_Office/Excel/Q_21470207.html

(which I played around with) but I'm struggling with it, and not sure if this will yield the results I need.  I will have a total of 3 drop downs.  

Drop Down 1 is a short list.
Drop Down 2 is a list that has many repeating values, but I need for this list to be UNIQUE, based on the selection of Drop Down 1.
Drop Down 3 is a list that does not have repeating values, but is based on the choice of Drop Down 2. I want Drop Down 3 to be limited to a select few instead of the entire list.
ADDITIONALLY, I need for Drop Down 3 to hide previously used items in the list.  So if I have Drop Down 3 in Cell D5 and D6, and I pick 'Scott' for D5, 'Scott' will not be an item available in D6.

I've gotten Drop Down 1 to work correctly.
I've gotten Drop Down 2 to work displaying the complete list, but the drop down is currently NOT Unique.
I've gotten Drop Down 3 to work displaying the complete list, but drop down 3 is currently NOT limited to the appropriate few based on the choice from Drop Down 2.
I have not got the 'hiding' feature working on Drop Down 3.

Like the other person in the other post regarding unique drop down lists,  I want to do this without creating another "list/range" somewhere that spits out the unique values and then is used as the input for the validation.

I've attached an example spreadsheet for your review.  The lists are on the tab "ValidationLists" and the drop downs in question are on the "ValidationSample" tab.

Thank you in advance.  This is a rather time sensitive matter.

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