Data Validation List: Ignore Blanks Between Data

Nov 1, 2006

In column A I have a list of text. There are blank lines in between the cell that actually contain text. What I am trying to accomplish is create a validation list that will give me only the cells with text in them and ignore the blanks. For example in column A1:A7 I have the following text:

John
Mike

Tony

Jake

My validation list will return those names but will also give me the blanks in between the names.

Is there any way to ignore the blanks?

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