Thank you for your suggestion, but in fact that doesn't fit the
grouping of the relevant cells. They are all contiguous, but not
surrounded by emply cells--so, in effect, it is only one part of a
larger block. In the present data  set, for example the entire block
would go from A1:N141, but the needed selection for the formulas is
E2:N141 . . . and the next set of data might have a different number
of rows, so I have a counter set up to check. I can get the correct
address for the block to show up in a MSG box, using the variables
from the counter, but I can't figure out the syntax to put that in
as a range to select for the fill down. There may be another way to
do this entirely, so I'm open to suggestions. Since I'm new to
Visual Basic, I might be overlooking something very simple.