Matching and Comparing data from sheet1 to sheet2

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Hello there,
sorry if this has been asked before - I don't know the lingo yet ; )
I would like to match 3 to 4 columns of data in a row in sheet 1 to the same data and amount of columns in Sheet 2 a
ie matching between Project ID & Activity Id & Activity Name
and find differences in one or two the columns ie: % completed and Activity Status

What I trying to find is when data has been updated (not when it remains the same) can I highlight the changed in the data in current week ?
I was thinking to make it easy to update each week I could insert new data into the same columns in Sheet 1 (last weeks data) and Sheet 2 (this weeks data) each week and keep the formula in sheet 3 ?

I have found when I concatenate I sometimes get a problem when a user has added extra spaces after a word or number or when the dash changes from a short dash to a long dash, problems like that are stopping me from matching in concatenation correctly and I have thousands of rows to check so want to make it easy and successful
I really appreciate your reading this and helping if you can - thank you Helen ; )

for example :

Sheet 1 (last weeks data)
Project ID (column 1 title)

Project IDActivity IDActivity NameStartFinish% CompleteActivity Status
ABC-234-65MOB-123activity name 112-Jan-17 A12-Jan-17 A1COMPLETED
ABC-234-65DRP-123activity name 2 15/05/201719/05/20170NOT_STARTED
ABC-234-66DRP-2032activity name 304-Apr-17 A30/06/20170.3001IN_PROGRESS
ABC-234-66DRP-2033activity name 404-Apr-17 A30/06/20170.3001IN_PROGRESS

<tbody>
</tbody><colgroup><col><col><col><col span="2"><col><col></colgroup>



Sheet 2 (this weeks data)

Project IDActivity IDActivity NameStartFinish% CompleteActivity Status
ABC-234-65MOB- 123activity name 1 12-Jan-17 A12-Jan-17 A1COMPLETED
ABC-234-65DRP-123activity name 2 42870428740NOT_STARTED
ABC-234-66DRP-2032activity name 304-Apr-17 A429160.3001IN_PROGRESS
ABC-234-66DRP-2033activity name 404-Apr-17 A429160.3001IN_PROGRESS

<tbody>
</tbody><colgroup><col><col><col><col span="2"><col><col></colgroup>
 

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sorry meant to make these changes
Imagine I have changed in Sheet 2
under % complete from 30 % to 45% and Activity Status changes from In-progress to completed
 
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