Hello all,

I’m hoping to get some assistance with the following:

I have column “A” and “B”.

Column “B” has some cells with 4 dashes (----). I would like to replace the dashes with the value from the cell directly above it. There might be one cell with dashes or many contiguous cells with dashes in column “B”.

The other thing I’m trying to do is make sure the value in the cell to the left of the dashes, and the value directly above that cell, are the same. If they are not, the dashes should not be replaced. Like this:

Befo
COLA | COLB
Part1 | PO1
Part1 | ----
Part1 | ----
Part2 | ----
Part3 | PO2
Part3 | ----

After:
COLA | COLB
Part1 | PO1
Part1 | PO1
Part1 | PO1
Part2 | ----
Part3 | PO2
Part3 | PO2

I found the code below on extendoffice.com. It works great if the cells are blank (instead of filled with dashes). This code also requires that I have a cell in column “B” selected. I’m trying to make it so I don’t have to worry about what cell is selected. And, I need to add the validation step.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Sub AddPOToBlanks()
'fill blank cells in column with value above

Dim Area As Range, LastRow As Long
On Error Resume Next
LastRow = Cells.Find(What:="*", SearchOrder:=xlRows, _
| | SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _
| | LookIn:=xlFormulas).Row
For Each Area In ActiveCell.EntireColumn(1).Resize(LastRow). _
| | SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Areas
Area.Value = Area(1).Offset(-1).Value
Next
End Sub

On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:44:12 AM UTC-5, BMPInc. NOT wrote:
Hello all,



I�m hoping to get some assistance with the following:



I have column �A� and �B�.



Column �B� has some cells with 4 dashes (----). I would like to replace

the dashes with the value from the cell directly above it. There might

be one cell with dashes or many contiguous cells with dashes in column

�B�.



The other thing I�m trying to do is make sure the value in the cell to

the left of the dashes, and the value directly above that cell, are the

same. If they are not, the dashes should not be replaced. Like this:



Befo

COLA | COLB

Part1 | PO1

Part1 | ----

Part1 | ----

Part2 | ----

Part3 | PO2

Part3 | ----



After:

COLA | COLB

Part1 | PO1

Part1 | PO1

Part1 | PO1

Part2 | ----

Part3 | PO2

Part3 | PO2



I found the code below on extendoffice.com. It works great if the cells

are blank (instead of filled with dashes). This code also requires that

I have a cell in column �B� selected. I�m trying to make it so I don�t

have to worry about what cell is selected. And, I need to add the

validation step.



Any help is appreciated.



Thanks!



Sub AddPOToBlanks()

'fill blank cells in column with value above



Dim Area As Range, LastRow As Long

On Error Resume Next

LastRow = Cells.Find(What:="*", SearchOrder:=xlRows, _

| | SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _

| | LookIn:=xlFormulas).Row

For Each Area In ActiveCell.EntireColumn(1).Resize(LastRow). _

| | SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Areas

Area.Value = Area(1).Offset(-1).Value

Next

End Sub









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BMPInc.
should do it
Sub showifdashs()
Dim I As Long
Dim mf As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = 0
For I = 2 To Cells(Rows.Count, "a").End(xlUp).Row
Set mf = Columns("b").Find(What:="----", LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)
If Not mf Is Nothing And _
Cells(I - 1, 1) = Cells(I, 1) Then
Cells(I, 2) = Cells(I - 1, 2)
End If
Next I
Application.ScreenUpdating = 1
End Sub

dguillett,

It works perfectly!

Thanks for your time, help and quick response!

Dan

Hi Don,

The macro does exactly what I was hoping it would do. I thank you again for your hard work.

I was wondering if you might have any suggestions for getting this to run more efficiently in a large spreadsheet. I currently have about 34,000 lines and almost 4,000 of them have the dashes (----) and it takes 15 minutes to run.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks again for your help,

Dan

On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:44:12 AM UTC-5, BMPInc. NOT wrote:
Hello all,



I�m hoping to get some assistance with the following:



I have column �A� and �B�.



Column �B� has some cells with 4 dashes (----). I would like to replace

the dashes with the value from the cell directly above it. There might

be one cell with dashes or many contiguous cells with dashes in column

�B�.



The other thing I�m trying to do is make sure the value in the cell to

the left of the dashes, and the value directly above that cell, are the

same. If they are not, the dashes should not be replaced. Like this:



Befo

COLA | COLB

Part1 | PO1

Part1 | ----

Part1 | ----

Part2 | ----

Part3 | PO2

Part3 | ----



After:

COLA | COLB

Part1 | PO1

Part1 | PO1

Part1 | PO1

Part2 | ----

Part3 | PO2

Part3 | PO2



I found the code below on extendoffice.com. It works great if the cells

are blank (instead of filled with dashes). This code also requires that

I have a cell in column �B� selected. I�m trying to make it so I don�t

have to worry about what cell is selected. And, I need to add the

validation step.



Any help is appreciated.



Thanks!



Sub AddPOToBlanks()

'fill blank cells in column with value above



Dim Area As Range, LastRow As Long

On Error Resume Next

LastRow = Cells.Find(What:="*", SearchOrder:=xlRows, _

| | SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _

| | LookIn:=xlFormulas).Row

For Each Area In ActiveCell.EntireColumn(1).Resize(LastRow). _

| | SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Areas

Area.Value = Area(1).Offset(-1).Value

Next

End Sub


Forgot about this but could probably be modified to use a
FINDNEXT macro. Send me the file with my first macro, etc.






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BMPInc.