MACRO HELP, PASTE CELL TO COLUMN

[Dan]

hi, i am trying to improve on a macro to paste a cell down a column.
with an updated cell at top with a formula, i do a cntrl-c &
pick the top row of the column i want to start pasting at (any column i
select).
should skip rows where column A has a period "."
improvement needs to copy to ALL cells at the same time.. instead of 1 cell
at a time. thanks in advance

i have a couple of examples below, the
1st does all of above, but only does 1 cell at a time.
2nd does not skip rows, 3rd is an alternate idea, not familiar with macro

1 i want to manually copy new formula from 1 cell at top,
2 manually select any column, 'dynamic' range of rows, or end row..
(i will manually select 1st cell/ row in col desired for paste col),
3 paste formula's, skip rows where col A has a period "."


1ST EXAMPLE:

Sub PastecellE() 'alt-E (paste cell eq/ formula)
r = ActiveCell.Row 'row
c = ActiveCell.Column 'cell
LastRow = Range("C4").Value 'C4 has: =ROW($A$2058) 'last row

For Each c In Range(Cells(r, c), Cells(LastRow, c))
If Cells(c.Row, "A").Value <> "." Then
c.Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormulas, Operation:=xlNone, _
SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=False
End If
Next c
End Sub


XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 2nd example, does not skip rows

Sub test() 'alt-T (test)

Dim C4 As String
C4 = Range("C4") 'C4 has: =ROW($A$2058)-ROW($A$228)-1 'range of rows
Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.Offset(C4, 0)).Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormulas, Operation:=xlNone, _
SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=False

End Sub


XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 3rd example

Sub test() 'alt-T (test), does not work/ as is,
'not sure if will do what want: testing

Dim cell As Range
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim C4 As Long 'this is a number since using it as an offset
Set ws = Worksheets("sym") ' Set ws = Worksheets("Sheet1")
C4 = ws.Range("C4").Value 'C4 has: =ROW($A$2058)-ROW($A$228)-1

'ERROR
For Each cell In ws.Range(C4) '(err: METHOD RANGE OF OBJECT WORKSHEET
FAILED) 'column manual selected / rows C4
If ws.Range("A" & cell.Row).Value = "." Then 'do nothing
Else

'PROBLEM:
With ws.Range(ActiveCell, ws.Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell &
cell.Row).Offset(C4, 0)) 'MODIFY
'With ws.Range("A" & cell.Row, ws.Range("A" &
cell.Row).Offset(C4, 0)) 'WRONG, not just col A
'Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.Offset(C4, 0)).Select
'ORIGINAL WORKS (in above) PASTE ALL ROWS: NOT WANTED

.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormulas, Operation:=xlNone, _
SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=False
End With
End If
Next
End Sub