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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.
XLSX Excel Spreadsheets are different than the XLS version in that they use the Microsoft Office Open XML format. The Open XML format makes it easy for other programs, such as OpenOffice.org, to read XLSX files (and other Open XML file types). The Open XML format was introduced with Microsoft Office 2007.