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Default name manager?

Morning all.
I'm trying to make a combo box and have come to realize that I'd probably be
better off using the name mgr to set my values.
I have a worksheet that's 4830 rows of data that I'd be using as my source.
Due to the type of data, its arranged in a manner that has a lot of spaces
between cells of data.

E.g. I have my column A data that varies between single rows, and having
gaps upwards of 20 rows. That data on column A is correlated to the data in
columns B-K, and the B-K data is what makes for the gaps.

So far, I tried setting the ListFillRange of the Combobox, for the entirety
of Column A, and it leaves me with a lot of blanks.
I'd really like to set up a named range, in the name mgr so that there are
no blanks in the dataset.
In attempting to do this, where my named range became:
=ShtNm!$A$1:$A$10,ShtNm!$A$15,ShtNm!$A$25:$A$26,.. ..... varied
singlecelladdresses, and multiplerangeaddresses......ShtNm!$A$4825:$A$4830

This resulted in my hitting the 255 character limit real fast-- again, there
are 4830 rows of data. As well as trying to set up multiple named ranges.

My question is manifold.... and I hope concise enough to draw a suitable
response.

1- is there a way to set up a named range, or the combobox so that there are
no blanks in the Cbox-list?

I don't mind using a named range, but again-- blanks are not an option, and
due to the data's arrangement, I cannot modify without causing other, far
greater issues that'd render that dataset unusable.

Please advise if this isn't clear enough.


Thank you for your helps.
Best.
Steve