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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.
Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel - Reason 2: Sharing data by linking to an Excel worksheet from Access. 1  One of the easiest ways to derive the benefits of both Excel and Access is to link an Excel worksheet to an Access table. 2  Access supports two fundamentally different ways of creating database tables.