How to detect duplicate records while importing

SKV

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I am importing data every week, which has records from previous download also but certain fields for that record are updated.

To keep the database up todate I have to compare each new record to the existing record to check for an update. This take a lot of time and I want to update this process such that while importing access should tell me which fields in a record have changed and of the which records I want to import.
It should display the old record and new record with changed fields highlighted in red
 

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