Disappointed with Linux Lite already

[Dookus]

As far as your Excel problem, once open, try saving the file as Calcs default format, if that fixes the problem you can save the file in a MS format if you need to.

The search bar problem ... open your search engine of choice in a web page and use the search dialogue in the page, that may help, this may be a Firefox problem and has been seen recently in builds, have you run the updates?

I'll have a think about the lottery issue, this is odd as the server would detect where you live from your IP address, are you using a proxy?