Repeat cell above (fill blank)

I have a worksheet with a column with words, but a lot od the cells are empty. I want these replaced with the word above. I know I can do this with fill handle, but as there are thousands, it would help with a routine - a program - that I could run on the column and thus fill out all the empty cells.
Thanks.

Thanks for the program on the web, but it didn't work for me. I got the message "No blanks found", probably something I did wrongly, but what?
Any idea?
Thanks
Jan Surrey

Thanks for your help. I tried the manual ones, but did not quite know how to - I am using Excel 2007. Here is a sample from the file.
Thanks

Thanks for answering, but I am afraid it didn't work. When I ran the p rogram it replace all the cells with the first word in the column, not with the nearest above, which is what I wanted
Thanks
Jan

I feel a bit silly here - all I manage to do using the manual version is to fill all cells with the same, whatever is in the first cell. But what I need is it to be filled with whatever is in the cell above.
I see I can do this lots of times and thereby fill all the cells, but this is what I wanted to avoid.
It may be I'm doing something wrong, as the link says choose Edit-Go to, but you don't have exact the same in Excel 2007. As you understand I am a complete newbie...
Jan

I did exactly that and all the cells in the column are filled with the word in cell C1.

Yes, you're right. It did not work in Excel 2007, but when I saved the files as Ex 2000 and ran the program, it worked fine. Thanks again
Jan