alternative to too many nested IF statements

I have a sheet with 10 columns. I need to start at the far right and work my way to the left to determine if a column has data (text) in it or not. If it does, I need to return the value, if not, I need it to continue to the left and check the next one.

I have a statement that works but it only allows me to process 7 columns and I need to process all 10.

=IF(ISTEXT(T5),(T5),IF(ISTEXT(R5),(R5),IF(ISTEXT(P5),(P5),IF(ISTEXT(N5),
N5,IF(ISTEXT(L5),(L5),IF(ISTEXT(J5),(J5),IF(ISTEXT(H5),(H5),"error")))))))

Any suggestions?

I am using Excel 2007 but as far as I can tell, it seems the limitation of 7 nested statements still applies.


ps. My first post. Hope I did a reasonable job.