Excel vba - How to copy/paste when range varies

Question

Got a sheet holding 7000 rows. Data is in columns A-C. Column A is teams, B is persons, and C is towns. Row 1 holds headers. Cell A2 is the first team name. Cell B2: C23 is persons and towns (no empty cells). However, cell A3: A23 is empty. The team name is only written out for the first row of persons/towns.

Row 24 is blank. In A25 there is a new team name. B25:C38 is persons/towns. A26: A38 is empty.

What I want to do is to copy/paste team name in A2 down to empty cells in A3: A23. And then do the same with the team name in A25 to A26: A38. And so on down about 7000 rows for 370 teams.

But the number of rows in use for each team varies, so how can a VBA take this into account? The only fixed information is that there is an empty row between each team/person/town-section.

Answer 1

I came up with a quick solution that takes into account blank lines:

Option Explicit

Sub completeTeams()
    Dim i As Long
    Const startDataRow = 2
    Dim lastDataRow As Long
    Dim lastTeamRow As Long

    Dim lastTeamFound As String
    Dim teamCellData As String

    Dim isEmptyLine As Boolean

    Rem getting the last row with data (so using column B or C)
    lastDataRow = ActiveSheet.Cells(ActiveSheet.Rows.Count, "B").End(xlUp).Row

    teamCellData = vbNullString
    lastTeamFound = ActiveSheet.Cells(startDataRow, "A").Text

    For i = startDataRow To lastDataRow
        Rem trying to get the actual team name
        teamCellData = ActiveSheet.Cells(i, "A").Text

        Rem check to skip empty lines
        isEmptyLine = Len(teamCellData) = 0 And Len(ActiveSheet.Cells(i, "B").Text) = 0
        If isEmptyLine Then GoTo skipBlankLine

        If Len(teamCellData) > 0 Then
            lastTeamFound = teamCellData
        End If

        ActiveSheet.Cells(i, "A").Value = lastTeamFound

skipBlankLine:
    Next

End Sub