GREP/nested styles: Help needed

Hi there,
I loved GREP and nested styles from the moment I figured out what it was. But sadly I am not very good at building structures, and I can't find a GREP manual for my needs (I'd need it in German). So my skills are very, very basic, but usually I get along. Now I have a task that goes far beyond, and after one and a half very frustrating days of testing and fiddling around I figure that am stuck. I hope that anyone can help.
So this is the task: I have an Excel file, 11 columns and hundreds of lines. Those will have to go in a "list of publications" of a scientific book.
The columns are tabstop separated:
Author1 Author2 Author3 Author4 Author5 Text Title Journal Volume Page Year
The result will have to look like this:
Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, and Author5, Text,
Title
Journal <blank> Volume, Page <blank> (Year)
So I have to insert commas, the word "and", (probably soft) linebreaks, blanks, and brackets. "Title" needs to be in italics, while "Volume" needs to be bold. The problem is that I get text corrections all the time, and the excel file gets longer and longer every day. In addition to that, some columns, like "Author4" and "Author5", and mostly "Text" are often, but not always, empty.
Is there a way to change the tabstop separated Excel lines into what it has to look like more or less automatically (or at least in just a few simple steps)?
Thanks for your help!
Best from a sunny Hannover, Germany,
Gero

I'd have saved the excel file as a Comma Delimited File
Then all your text would be converted from
Author 1
Author2
Author3
Author4
Title etc.
to
Author1, Author 2, Author3, Author4, Title etc.
Then it would have been a matter of finding a determined amount of commas to a point and inserting a soft return
and so on.
If that makes sense?

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