![]() ![]() I sometimes work with messy docs emailed from China. Is the doc just for you? Are you sharing with an MS user? Are you sharing a PDF of your final work? But I have found that this works well: Create a bare-bones docx with the free version of Office 365, save it, and edit it as docx with LO from that point forward.Įach writer's needs will vary. LO's biggest opportunity for improvement (in my opinion) is MS compatibility. I won't use WPS's cloud feature b/c I don't trust its privacy. I don't like that it's proprietary and Chinese. I like WPS's MS-clone behavior and appearance. (WPS works well with complex documents created in China that I occasionally must work with niche, I know, but that's me.) I like and use both for different things. I'm a longtime LO user and a paid WPS license holder. When is LO going to get their act together and actually change the GUI to something modern and nice? I can post those if anyone is interested. options to get WPS to visually integrate. I'm even considering paying the $30 subscription for the windows version just to show support for Kingsoft.įor KDE users there are a few config. But I'm very happy to have found an alternative. It's disappointing that LO has so many people working on it and yet they don't seem to care about basic things such as text spacing and UI. The ribbon is very customisable, and it has some options that even MS Word lacks - such as if you drag an image into a document you can set the default text flow. And if you make the window large enough horizontally it will automatically switch to showing two pages side-by-side. I'm enjoying all the thoughtful touches, such as if you maximise the GUI the tab bar and window controls combine to the same vertical level giving you more space to work. There's also an "All in One" mode where presentations, documents, and spreadsheets all open in one window. ![]() In LO, even with the new Skia/Vulkan renderer, you get uneven letter spacing all over the place. Documents pop open instantantly (even on my humble laptop), it has a slick modern interface with tabbed UI, and handled the tick boxes in a form from my local dentist which LO ignored.Īnother major improvement is that the font spacing in WPS is perfect. So I grabbed WPS from the AUR (also available as a flatpak) and wow! It's everything I needed in an office suite. Since the release of WPS Office 2005, the user interface is similar to that of Microsoft Office products, and it supports Microsoft document formats in addition to its own files.Recently I have been going through some old document folders, and was getting tired of how slowly they were loading in LibreOffice, and the general uglyness of the LO interface. For a time, Kingsoft branded the suite as "KSOffice" for the international market, but later returned to "WPS Office". As of 2019, the Linux version is developed and supported by a volunteer community rather than Kingsoft itself.The product has had a long history of development in China under the name "WPS" and "WPS Office". A fully featured professional-grade version is also available for a subscription fee. By 2022, WPS Office reached a number of more than 494 million monthly active users and over 1.2 billion installations.The personal basic version is free to use. WPS Office is made up of three primary components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, and WPS Spreadsheet. It also comes pre-installed on Fire tablets. WPS Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer Kingsoft.
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