Knox County. UT Extension serves the citizens of Knox County with educational programs in the areas of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, Community Resource Development, and 4-H Youth Development.
Microsoft Excel on the other hand is a spreadsheet program, it is usually used to display data and work out calculations in the form of tables and graphs, it also has a more integrated use of macros. So basically, Access stores data, Excel calculates and displays data.   ANS2:Access creates relational databases.
Spreadsheets and databases generally use different technologies. The most widely used spreadsheet program is Excel, which is part of Microsoft Office. Other spreadsheet programs form part of OpenOffice and GoogleDocs. Database technologies include Microsoft Access, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server, among many others.