Today, technology has taken over all life fields i.e. education, health, business, farming, agriculture, construction, manufacturing etc. Thus, to stand out in your working space it is become crucial to have perfect software to assist you in your work. Like we have said before technology stands out in every field of life, here we will describe two inclusive office programs that can help students and other office workers.
Microsoft Office vs. WPS Office
You will be well known of these two programs but in this blog we will discuss Microsoft office and WPS office deeply in comparison. This will be helpful for you to choose which program works best for you as a student.
Microsoft Word
Word in Microsoft is all in one office suite that comes with variety of features to help you in writing and organizing documents. Whether you are writer, student or employee MS word makes your work smooth and easy. You can easily write articles, blogs, contract papers and create business documents on Word. Moreover, MS Word provides you comprehensive users` guide to educate you how to use its features.
WPS Office
WPS office is also a free office suite developed by Kingsoft. Here you can get tools for writing, presentations and spreadsheets generation. Its strengthen features include compatibility with MS Word formats and affordability. Plus, user-friendly interface makes it attractive office tool. By offering simple user-interface and straightforward functionality it saves your valuable time and streamlines your office workflow.
Additionally you can change file formats like DOC, DOCX, XLSX, TXT etc. It allows you to convert and export documents in any desired format. Besides this an amazing feature it holds is; PDF resize tool. Using this tool you can reduce size of any PDF file for sharing or export purpose.
Comparison between MS Word and WPS Office
Format Compatibility
Microsoft office supports all the basic document file formats but WPS Office does here an excellent job. Along with all the basic formats that Word supports, it is compatible to advanced formats like PPTX, XLSX, DOCS etc. So, there is no need to worry about file format compatibility if you choose WPS office. And you can easily collaborate with your colleagues who use MS Word.
Thus, in format compatibility WPS office takes over the MS word.
Cost comparison of WPS office and MS Word
To talk about cost, MS Word requires an expensive license to access professional features. You can not use all features of MS Word without subscription. On the other hand, WPS office offers a lot of advance tool in free version. For example you can create spreadsheets, presentations, document processing without purchasing any paid plan. So, WPS office wins the pot again in case of cost.
Collaboration or Co-editing
WPS office allows you to share documents via links, QR codes or some other sharing source so that you can collaborate with your colleagues. Plus, it also supports co-editing and every change is saved along with original copy of your document file.
MS Word allows you to edit documents using third party editing source or OneDrive but doesn’t support co-editing. That is the reason in case of co-editing WPS office is more convenient to use.
User-Interface
Although there are many differences between MS Word and WPS office but due to same core function they offer a quite similar user-interface. But there is no exaggeration in saying that WPS offers a fresh and advanced UI design while MS Word UI seems quite out-dated. For new learners WPS will be best.
Plugins Support
As WPS office comes with advance tools like OCR and screen recording it does not support extensions or external plugins. While MS Word supports variety of open-source plugins that increase the functionality of MS Word. And this point is worth considering.
AI Features
WPS office has various AI driven capabilities while MS Word lacks here. ChatPDF, spell check, text generation and text translation these are major AI features that WPS office support. In case MS word only paid version has AI support to some extent.
Conclusion:
Although both programs have same function and are well known for their smooth functioning. But if we take a look over today`s requirement WPS office has multiple strong edges as compared to MS Word. If you need to use advance tool you can go with WPS office. But if you only want to do basic writing work MS Word works best for you.