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copied!<p>From a VBS script I have to work with an Excel book with the format:</p> <pre><code> | A | B | C | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| 1 | Header1 | Header2 | Header3 | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| 2 | FOLDER1 | | | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| 3 | Item1 | 111 | 222 | ----| |-----------|-----------| 4 | | Item1Info | Item1Data | ----| |-----------|-----------| .. | | ... | ... | ----| |-----------|-----------| 11 | | 333 | 444 | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| 12 | Item2 | 555 | 666 | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| 13 | FOLDER2 | | | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| 14 | Item1 | 777 | 888 | ----|-----------|-----------|-----------| .. | ... | ... | ... | </code></pre> <p>So: Column A has 1st level and 2nd level categories (Folders/Items), and Columns B and C hold the data for the items. The trouble here is that one item can span several rows, as shown; Item1 is a merged cell from rows 3 to 11).</p> <p>I need to create a .csv from this data that looks as follows:</p> <pre><code>Header1,Header2,Header3 111,Item1,FOLDER1 Item1Info,Item1,FOLDER1 ... 555,Item2,FOLDER1 777,Item1,FOLDER2 ... </code></pre> <p>The data in Column C can be discarded.</p> <p>Basically, what I need to know is how to detect if a cell is merged (that is; more than one row of information per item) <strong>and</strong> how many rows are merged together. Any idea?</p>

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