I would like to know if this HAIKO Software has native Word and Excel in the program?
I appreciate any response.
J.Carlos
SP/SP Brazil
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There is no Native suite that I know off, but you can use both libreoffice and calligra suite. : )
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If you are on the 32 bit version of Haiku, you can also use GoBe Productive. I guess it depends on the file types you are working with. 
Just attempted Windows version of GoBe and doesn’t work in wine within Haiku 64 bit.
Gobe is a 32bit app on Haiku. It is native IE it was programmed for BeOS. I believe there is a version included in the Zeta CD. I have my version of Gobe Productive purchased from GoBe software. Gobe Productive only runs on Haiku x86_gcc2.
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There is also AbiWord, but I’ve never found that to be particularly stable on ANY platform. Sum-It is a native Haiku spreadsheet.
You can also try the online version of MS Office, but run it in Falkon or Gnome Web (aka Epiphany), not in WebPositive. Same goes for Google Docs.
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How does Calligra compare with LibreOffice? Could one of them be considered more “Haiku-native” than the other?
It is good to have so many productivity recommendations but I encourage contributors to be more outspoken about the relative merits of their favourite packages 
Not really more native. It depends a bit.
Personally I like Calligra more, it has one UI style and sticks to it while libreoffice offers 5 styles at once beeing “configurable” and it makes the UI much more confusing. The UI (of Calligrad) is just better in my (subjective) view.
I’ve had Major problems with Calligra in that it could not import PNG or PDF files into my text document, so was not able to finish a combined document with all my things. LibreOffice however failed to open the document entirely. Going the dance of “this is corrupted, let me fix it?” “Yes sure” “It’s still corrupted. bye” While Calligra was able to open it fine.
(Trying to add png or pdf to a file in Libreoffice worked for me in the past but it ate all my RAM and slowed down to a crawl…)
Calligras icons fail in the dark mode, many of them are not natively styled Icons and fall back to I think breeze light, which makes them unreadable in dark mode. Not sure what a good fix here would be (other than maybe adding Haiku variants to all Icons it needs)
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It is a bit of a tragedy that 64-bit users can’t run GoBe Productive. I was introduced to BeOS long after its lifetime and never had the chance to try a lot of its applications.
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Although it was a remarkable piece of software, it can’t really compete with Calligra nowadays. Or anything, frankly speaking. It’s a 25-ish years old application, after all!
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That’s very subjective. Newer isn’t always better.
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where can I get a copy of it?
Stat with BeShare and query there. Or Zeta OS Installation files.
I’m sure I brought box of Gobe Productive in my Haiku salad days. When my computer was stolen and moved onto other stuff, I don’t suppose I kept it, sadly.
Edit: Haiku was of course BeOS then!
Over here: https://www.be.wildman-productions.org/
This is GoBe Productive: BeBytes - The BeOS Software Archive
This is why we need a 32-bit subsystem. Optional, of course. I remember adding that to a 64-bit Debian setup by installing a single metapackage (It is done differently now). It would make it possible to consolidate X86 Haiku into a single ISO so we can finally move forward.
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Depending on your needs, you could also try running the original Microsoft Office, or something more lightweight like Softmaker Office/FreeOffice under WINE. That’s the closest we can get to “native Word and Excel”.
I have seen it on Archive.org
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