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Both Excel and Access are capable of doing a lot of things that the other can do. Both can store data. Both allow you to manipulate data. Access is primarily for lists of data, such as names and addresses, while Excel mainly deals with numbers.
Both spreadsheets and databases are used to store and manage sets of data. The basic content in a spreadsheet or a database is a set of data values. Where spreadsheets and databases vary is in how they store and manipulate the data. A spreadsheet stores data values in cells, with multiple cells represented in a system of rows and columns.