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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.
To make the long story short one could say that MS Access (as a database) is used to collect, store and organize the data. Excel on the other hand is meant for representing data in various ways. But there is so much more in the background, when we talk about Microsoft Access itself.