Ok ok fair enough. I guess it's no secret that i'm completely new to FRED2 after recently re-installing the game I baught 10 or so years ago.
I don't know why I missed it except that the chained events box is quite small. It's easy to spot now that I know where to look for it.
The FRED2 tutorial is very useful. Without it, my questions would be in the form of a link to a word document. Looking back, it does mention chained events under the events editor page. Maybe I need to re-read the documentation more carefully.
At any rate, problem solved. Thanks again.