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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.
That is where the similarity ends. MicrosoftÂ® Access is a database and, more specifically, a relational database. This will be explained in more detail later. Access has an .mdb extension by default, whereas MicrosoftÂ® Word has the .doc extension.