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.
Microsoft Access is a database management application used to enter, search, sort and report on information. Microsoft Access is easy to use and tightly integrated with Microsoft Office software applications. Access databases can be customized as complete applications using development tools such as Microsoft Visual Basic and can scale up to more advanced products including Microsoft SharePoint Portal and Microsoft SQL Server.