Outlook, eh? wrote...
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How about if it were just a number and I would still like to
have it grow by each row (if not blank)..

Such as:

1 Lucy

3 Trina
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Give someone a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach them to fish,
and you feed them for life. Time for you to fish.

What do you think you'd need to remove from the last formula I gave to
produce this new behavior? Try experimenting with the formula.