If those item numbers are unique, maybe you could use =vlookup() or
=index(match()) to retrieve values from the second worksheet and put it near the
values in the first worksheet.

You could look at Debra Dalgleish's site:
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html
and
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html

Jack wrote:

I am a novice Excel user. I have to worksheets that have data, some of it is
similar (ie. Item #'s, etc.) I want to automatically compare the reports and
highlight data on one worksheet that is identicle to the data on the other
worksheet. If I can't do this, I'm going to have to manually compare the
data.

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Dave Peterson