A macro could move down the data row-by-row. For each row, it would
calculate the number of filled (non-empty) cells. If too many cells were
filled, it could concatinate the data based upon some simple rules.

This is only an approach, not a full solution.
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Gary's Student


"flow23" wrote:

data is imported from a text file as comma separated

There are 4 columns, however some data in column 2 have commas in the value.
this leads to excel
shifting the data into another columns

Eg. column 3 has dates in it. but due to that extra comma in the column 2,
the text in column 2 is shifted in the column 3 (date)
and so with column 4.

Is there a way to macro this?