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I have a column that has 140K rows, but there are about 5K of blanks that I
need the contents of the row above it copied into it, but if there is already
data there to just leave the existing data alone - do not change or make
blank. It would take many hours to search and work each individually..

Help is there a possible formula that will work. Thanks!
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Highlight those 140k cells, assuming the active cell is the first cell
with data in it. Then press F5 (GoTo) and in the pop-up click on
Special and then Blanks. Then begin to enter a formula by typing = and
then click on the cell immediately above the first blank cell and do
CTRL-Enter. All those blanks will now contain a formula to take the
value immediately above it. Highlight the column, click <copy, then
Edit | Paste Special | Values (check) | OK then <Esc to fix the
values of those formulae.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Sep 24, 1:09*am, JLD wrote:
I have a column that has 140K rows, but there are about 5K of blanks that I
need the contents of the row above it copied into it, but if there is already
data there to just leave the existing data alone - do not change or make
blank. It would take many hours to search and work each individually..

Help is there a possible formula that will work. Thanks!


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As you are using XL2007, then instead of Edit | Paste Special etc you
should right-click then Paste Special etc.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Sep 24, 1:26*am, Pete_UK wrote:
Highlight those 140k cells, assuming the active cell is the first cell
with data in it. Then press F5 (GoTo) and in the pop-up click on
Special and then Blanks. Then begin to enter a formula by typing = and
then click on the cell immediately above the first blank cell *and do
CTRL-Enter. All those blanks will now contain a formula to take the
value immediately above it. Highlight the column, click <copy, then
Edit | Paste Special | Values (check) | OK then <Esc to fix the
values of those formulae.

Hope this helps.

Pete

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I have a column that has 140K rows, but there are about 5K of blanks that I
need the contents of the row above it copied into it, but if there is already
data there to just leave the existing data alone - do not change or make
blank. It would take many hours to search and work each individually..


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