Opening MS Excel 2007 files + Spotlight

Hey all,
A couple of quick questions.
1. Is there any way to open MS Excel 2007 files? I tried Neooffice and an XML converter (which I now understand can convert only .docx and .pptx files?)
2. Is there a spotlight widget? So I can run spotlight whilst pulling up my dashboard?
Please let me know!
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Mustan

Some quick answers:
1. No. (Unless you count MS Excel 2007 on Windows.) MS is "working on it."
2. Not that I know of. But I could be wrong.

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