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.
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.
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.