Comments on: Fill Gaps Based on Cells Above

By: Taurean

Taurean — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:22:05 +0000

@Abel totally agree! Thanks for the great post! This is a huge help!

By: Abel

Abel — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:49:15 +0000

AMAZING FIND … saves me from the headache of copy pasting individual data … thanks a lot …

By: Märt Parker

Märt Parker — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:00:21 +0000

Sorry, for a late reply, I was away for a while.

One solution is to create a new column where you have numbers which increment by one with each new row.
Then you can enter a formula: =[reference to the main category cell on the left] & [incremented value]

This will always create a subcategory by adding the index value number to the main category identifier.

By: deme

deme — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:47:48 +0000

p.s i forgot to mention that as with the above example the values in subcategory should increment by 1 for every next blank cell until the next set of data (B1)…

By: deme

deme — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:45:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. How about if the data on category is A and all the rows are filled out but on subcategory only A1 is known and A2-A5 are blanks.. Do you have any suggestion on how these blanks can be automatically filled out with a formula or VB code? will appreciate any help. thanks