Thank you for your answers, It's just going to take me a little while before I can decipher them lol. You are far more advanced than I am at understanding perl. My code is clunky because I don't know better ways to accomplish what I need. So I try to take a bunch of baby stems then see if I can put those baby steps together for less steps. I have about 500 buttons over about 20 screens and I can only have 14 per page. I know how to pull the data from the XML file because I use this file to make other documents.

I'm able to get most of what I need formatted. I'll make a new post with the simplified hash so it's easier to read. Again thanks for your help!