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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.
I know that the NUMERIC and DECIMAL data types in SQL Server work the same: the syntax for creating them is the same, the ranges of values you can store in them is the same, etc. However, the MSDN documentation describes the relationship between the two as this: numeric is functionally equivalent to decimal.