Is Microsoft access a database or a spreadsheet?
No it is not. However, there are a lot of things that both a
database and a spreadsheet can do, so Access does have some
capabilities to do what a spreadsheet can. Spreadsheets focus on
numeric analysis and manpulation, so mostly concentrate on numbers.
Databases deal with processing lists of data, some of which would
be numeric, but it works with a lot of other kinds of data.
Microsoft Access is a database and that is what it is designed to
be, so it is not a spreadsheet.