How to allocate rows to a list in excel - excel

Question

I wanted to allocate the work to the number of people that can work on the task.
From the left table (raw data), I will input the names of the available workers. Then as a result, right table, the 5 people was then allocated 3 each. The work for each person is determined by the user, (much better if it will be automatically calculated to be allocated to each person equally, eg. 10 workloads to 5 people = 2 workload each, 100WL to 5P = 20WL each, and so on. hope you get the gist)
I am not familiar to excel, the processes and computations that it can do, but I am familiar to VB6 as it seems to be the backend coding of excel, so I will go down the coding path to execute this command. If possible, it will be greatly appreciated if one can provide me a sample in excel, so I can study, edit and tweak it a tad better as I am new(first time) to using VB6 in excel.

Answer 1

This formula will do what you need. Enter it in B2 and fill it down the column:
=INDEX(C:C,MOD(ROW()-2,COUNTA(C:C)-1)+2)
Breaking it down:
INDEX(C:C,[row]) -- Return the value at [row] in column C
Where [row] is:
MOD(ROW()-2,COUNTA(C:C)-1)+2
Breaking this down:
ROW()-2 -- Current row number in column B - offset to zero-base
COUNTA(C:C)-1 -- Number of workers in column C (-1 removes header)
MOD() -- Converts B row number into value in range [0 - # of Workers)
+2 -- Offsets [0-workers) to [2-workers+2) to account for positioning in col C
If you only want names to appear in column B if there's a task to perform, you can wrap the formula in an IF:
=IF(LEN(A2)>0,INDEX(C:C,MOD(ROW()-2,COUNTA(C:C)-1)+2),"")
Then you can fill this formula down hundreds of rows and names will get added automatically as you add work.