what are some similarities between excel and access?

Question

which menus are common to both? which keyboard shortcuts?
which formatting conventions: which toolbar icons? which shortcut menus?
what are the implications fo these common elements? how do you anticipate you will be able to utilize the common elements in the workplace?

Answer 1

Excel is a spreadsheet program while Access is database.
spreadsheet programs are good for quick calculations means fast results. They are handy tools. When you need to store them in a well structured way they will not be much helpful.
So there comes Access/ Database to your help and you can store data in a way which is stored in well structured tabular manner.
It is easy to use database/Access as backend while using Frontend applications with it means you use other custom made program for user interface and use Access as backend as database.

Answer 2

Both are created by Microsoft. I would imagine both have many similarities in keyboard shortcuts as the programmers would have used the same code.

I doubt it would cause any problems really, it's better to have the same for each program, it does make MS a bigger competitor in the market for this reason though as many dont like to change.

You can use these elements for speed and ease of use.
Also common funtionality errors

even though both programs are completely different

Its like word and excel are pretty much the same too, but also very different.
CTRL+C is copy CTRL+B is bold. Throughout the MS packages they are have a common ground

Answer 3

you can use both of them as a database in websites.

Answer 4

They both have two vowels in their name.

Answer 5

i have no idea