drop down boxes

I have a form and I need 8 drop down boxes with employee names. I set one box up with all names and copied it to the next cell but if I select a name in the first cell, all cells populate that name. How do I separate them without programming all names into each cell. (Very time consuming)

I tried a Java script but I don't know anything about them and it did not work. I put it in a mouse up under "run a java script"

1. var items = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"]; // etc. 
2. this.getField("Dropdown1").setItems(items); 
3. this.getField("Dropdown2").setItems(items); 
4. this.getField("Dropdown3").setItems(items); // etc. 

Any help?