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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.
MS Query gives Excel users the ability to access 3rd party databases, text files, and Excel workbooks as relational data sources. With text files, you can place them all in one folder to form a database. With Excel, you define several named ranges in a single workbook, and then use the ranges as database tables. MS Query doesn't give you many of the built-in features of a real database query program, such as Microsoft Query Analyzer or TOAD from Quest.