Remove blank cells in a table?

I have a Pages 5.0.1 document that's one three-column, multi-row table set up to print address labels for our annual holiday card mailing.
As people come and go from the mailing list, we have a number of blank cells I would like to delete from the table.
After reviewing all the menu and Help options, I've still not found the process.
Can someone help me to discover how I do this?  (And where I overlooked the directions to do so? It's got to be possible to do, right?)
In case it matters, this document was originally created in Word years ago on a previous iMac and converted to Pages when I got rid of the MS for Mac suite.

Assuming you want to update columns containing only blanks to null:
update your_tab
   set your_col = null
where regexp_like (your_col, '^ {1,}$')
/

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    I would like to calculate averages for the subgroups in column A. I could do this manually be selecting each range of data in column B, but with thousands of cells and many subcategories, it would take a long time. From what I can see Numbers "categories" function won't work as I would like if there are blank cells, so it seems I would need to fill in the blank data, to make a proper nominalised database list. Rather than do this manually with manual fills, is there a way to do it programatically? I can't manage the trick for MS Excel in the aforementioned website, as Numbers only allows filtering for blank cells, rather than selecting blank cells.
    I hope someone can help.

    And now, the script :
    --[SCRIPT fillblankcells]
    Enregistrer le script en tant que Script : fillblankcells.scpt
    déplacer le fichier ainsi créé dans le dossier
    <VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
    Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Numbers et peut-être même le dossier Applications.
    Sélectionner une cellule dans la colonne à compléter.
    menu Scripts > Numbers > fillblankcells
    Si une cellule de la colonne est vide, le script l'alimente avec le contenu de la dernière cellule remplie qui la précéde.
    --=====
    L'aide du Finder explique:
    L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
    Ouvrez l'Utilitaire AppleScript situé dans le dossier Applications/AppleScript.
    Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
    --=====
    Save the script as a Script: fillblankcells.scpt
    Move the newly created file into the folder:
    <startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
    Maybe you would have to create the folder Numbers and even the folder Applications by yourself.
    Select a cell in the column to fill.
    menu Scripts > Numbers > fillblankcells
    The script will fill every blank cell of this column with the contents of the preceeding filled cell.
    --=====
    The Finder's Help explains:
    To make the Script menu appear:
    Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
    Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
    --=====
    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
    2010/04/05
    --=====
    on run
    set {dName, sName, tName, rname, rowNum1, colNum1, rowNum2, colNum2} to my getSelParams()
    tell application "Numbers" to tell document dName to tell sheet sName to tell table tName to tell column colNum1
    set maybe to ""
    repeat with r from 2 to count of row
    if not (value of cell r) = 0 then
    set maybe to value of cell r
    else
    set value of cell r to maybe
    end if
    end repeat
    end tell
    end run
    --=====
    on getSelParams()
    local r_Name, t_Name, s_Name, d_Name, col_Num1, row_Num1, col_Num2, row_Num2
    set {d_Name, s_Name, t_Name, r_Name} to my getSelection()
    if r_Name is missing value then
    if my parleAnglais() then
    error "No selected cells"
    else
    error "Il n'y a pas de cellule sélectionnée !"
    end if
    end if
    set two_Names to my decoupe(r_Name, ":")
    set {row_Num1, col_Num1} to my decipher(item 1 of two_Names, d_Name, s_Name, t_Name)
    if item 2 of two_Names = item 1 of two_Names then
    set {row_Num2, col_Num2} to {row_Num1, col_Num1}
    else
    set {row_Num2, col_Num2} to my decipher(item 2 of two_Names, d_Name, s_Name, t_Name)
    end if
    return {d_Name, s_Name, t_Name, r_Name, row_Num1, col_Num1, row_Num2, col_Num2}
    end getSelParams
    --=====
    set {rowNumber, columnNumber} to my decipher(cellRef,docName,sheetName,tableName)
    apply to named row or named column !
    on decipher(n, d, s, t)
    tell application "Numbers" to tell document d to tell sheet s to tell table t to return {address of row of cell n, address of column of cell n}
    end decipher
    --=====
    set { d_Name, s_Name, t_Name, r_Name} to my getSelection()
    on getSelection()
    local _, theRange, theTable, theSheet, theDoc, errmsg, errNum
    tell application "Numbers" to tell document 1
    repeat with i from 1 to the count of sheets
    tell sheet i
    set x to the count of tables
    if x > 0 then
    repeat with y from 1 to x
    try
    (selection range of table y) as text
    on error errmsg number errNum
    set {_, theRange, _, theTable, _, theSheet, _, theDoc} to my decoupe(errmsg, quote)
    return {theDoc, theSheet, theTable, theRange}
    end try
    end repeat -- y
    end if -- x>0
    end tell -- sheet
    end repeat -- i
    end tell -- document
    return {missing value, missing value, missing value, missing value}
    end getSelection
    --=====
    on decoupe(t, d)
    local l
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
    set l to text items of t
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    return l
    end decoupe
    --=====
    on parleAnglais()
    local z
    try
    tell application "Numbers" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
    on error
    set z to "Cancel"
    end try
    return (z is not "Annuler")
    end parleAnglais
    --=====
    --[/SCRIPT]
    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 5 avril 2010 14:37:02

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