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Microsoft Excel on the other hand is a spreadsheet program, it is usually used to display data and work out calculations in the form of tables and graphs, it also has a more integrated use of macros. So basically, Access stores data, Excel calculates and displays data.   ANS2:Access creates relational databases.
up vote 3 down vote. 1  Excel is a spreadsheet application that saves files into its own format while CSV is a standard of saving tabular information into a delimited text file. 2  CSV is a very old method of saving tables compared to Excel. 3  CSV files cannot store other information like formatting while this comes standard in Excel.