WPS Office: Free alternative to Microsoft Office

WPS Office earlier known as Kingsoft Office is a free Office suite that lets you perform your daily office tasks easily. It is a free alternative to Microsoft Office. WPS Office is available for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS. The multi-platform engine has helped WPS Office to gain considerable popularity. WPS Office is far better than its previous versions of Kingsoft – it has been fully revamped to meet the modern requirements of an office user. It has a new name, design, and features – but it is still free of cost. In this post, we will discuss the features of WPS Office.

WPS Office is a free alternative to Microsoft Office

WPS Office may be a competitor to Microsoft Office, but it shows full support to the Microsoft Office formats like DOC, XLS, PPT, etc. – and you know that’s the part of the competition, as support for these formats may force some Microsoft Office users, who cannot afford to upgrade to newer versions, to shift to this free alternative.

The suite includes three applications: Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheet.

WPS Office Writer

Writer is the feature-filled component of the suite that supports all the common formats, similar to Word. You can use Writer to write your school projects, create a resume, or do just anything else. Writer even allows you to add word arts, text fields, headers, footers, etc. You can even add charts, symbols, and equations.

WPS Office Presentation

The presentation component of the suite lets you create presentations and even present them using the slideshow feature. It comes with nine preloaded designs, and you can download more from its website. Presentations support animations and transitions. It is what PowerPoint is in Microsoft Office.

WPS Office Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are the most useful and important component of the suite. Like Excel, you can create workbooks with more than one sheet. It comes with all the important features like auto sum, merging the cells, formulas, sorting, etc.

You can seamlessly edit more than one file with the help of the priority tabbing feature. Unlike Microsoft Office, you can open more than one file in the same window to easily navigate between multiple files. You can, of course, add this feature to Microsoft Office using Office Tabs.

The applications’ UI is somewhat similar to Microsoft Office. If you’ve previously used Microsoft Office, then you may not face many difficulties in using WPS, either. The UI is easy to use and includes three skins preloaded. Two are modern skins, and one is a classic-styled skin. You can switch skins as you wish.

With WPS Office, you can quickly share documents using the built-in emailing feature. It tries to keep your work as safe as possible by creating automatic backups of the file; this feature is also known as Auto-Save in Microsoft Office. The program also supports document encryption, so you can protect your documents against misuse or theft.

Overall, WPS is a good free alternative to Microsoft Office and can do almost every task that can be done with Microsoft Office. The 45-MB setup did more than what I expected. Since it is available for mobile platforms, too, you can open your WPS documents on mobiles without any chances of losing data or effects.

WPS Office free download

Click here to download WPS Office. It works just fine on Windows 11/10 and is also available on the Microsoft Store.