Highlighting and replacing data between spreadsheets

[nathanexcelhelp]

I have 2 spreadsheets. 1 has more columns than the other. Columns in both spread sheets contain references, dates, financials and address's.

Currently I have to manually check the data between the sheets for each corresponding reference to look for differences, line by line. Part of the reason for this, is that the location of the values is different between both sheets i.e. the value within sheet1 might be in A1 but the corresponding value in sheet2 might be in Z5.

Both sheets contain a reference which should mainly always be the same.

In short both sheets contain related data, but they are in different cell orders. If both sheets were identically layed out I would be comfortable in highlighting the differences between the 2, but im struggling when the data could be in different cells. Doing it manually is very painful.

Could someone help me with the best way to resolve this? I assume some kind of vlookup but im struggling to identify how to do it.

Thank you

[oeldere]

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