Compare two sheets with lots of columns

khandu

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Hi All

N00b to excel

I have a excel file with two sheets with some HR type data.. so we can consider column A for both sheets (say Sheet1 and Sheet2) to contain employeenumber

Now what I want to do is

1) Find if Sheet2 contains employeenumber (A in both sheets) - some kind of vlookup?
2) And if the match is found.. match all the columns for that match between both sheets..

Eg..

Sheet 1
employeenumberfirstnamesurnamedescpcode
1acd1AS22
2bdd2ASD2

<tbody>
</tbody>

Sheet2

employeenumberfirstnamesurnamedescpcode
1abd1AS22
3bbddd22ASD2d

<tbody>
</tbody>

So in above example I would like to see

1) employeenumber 1 matches on both sheet but surname does not match
2) Employeenumber 2 is missing in sheet2 and 3 in sheet1 (and thus none of the other columns will match)

If we can do some visual codes like colour or N/A something which will make sorting easier that will be helpful.

Thanks
 

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