Is it Possible to add a dummy column to auto populate name from another column

[tb426]

Hello all,

hope you can help me on this. Since I cannot attached any spreadsheet I will have to explain it a bit...

Row #1 are the headers of each column

Column A contains agents' names. However, a lot of the cells are blanks since this is how the cleaned up data I will be getting.
For example: A2 is John Smith. A3 to A6 is blank. A7 is David Armstrong. A8 to A13 is blank. A14 is James Little. A15 to A17 are blanks.
The "gap" (the number of blank cells in between names in Column A) will not always be the same.

Column C are text data, each and every row of Column B will have data in it

Column D are time data (hh:mm:ss), and each and each and every row of Column C will have data in it.

What I hope if possible is to add a dummy column (say Column B) so each and every row will have the agents' names associated with it.
So from example above, A2 to A6 will be John Smith, A7 to A13 will be David Armstrong, A14 to A17 will be James Little, and so on and so on...

Is there any excel formulas I can utilize to accomplish this without using Macro or VBA, as I don't know Macro or VBA...

Many thanks to all.

 

[Fluff]

How about
Select col A > Ctrl G > Special > Blanks > Ok > type in = then use the up arrow once > Ctrl Enter.

That will fill the values in col A down.

 

[Fluff]

Or with a helper column use
=IF(A2="",B1,A2)

 

[tb426]

problem solved!!!!

Thanks!

 

[Fluff]

You're welcome & thanks for the feedback