WPS Office 2019: A Great Modern Alternative to LibreOffice

WPS Office 2019: A Great Modern Alternative to LibreOffice

WPS Office 2019: A Great Modern Alternative to LibreOffice

«WPS Office» has always been a solid opponent of «LibreOffice» on «Sistemas Operativos Linux» when managing the formats of «MS Office». In addition to being a free and functional software package of «Aplicaciones Ofimáticas» that manage to improve productivity in projects with a low budget.

Thus, «WPS Office» is a modern software package, although proprietary and closed, whose «Aplicaciones Ofimáticas» includes innovative and practical programs for the many common work formats, such as text, spreadsheets and presentation sheets, without having a respective «Visor de PDF». Its name comes from the acronyms of the names, in English, of its applications that make it up, that is, «WPS = Writer, Presentation y Spreadsheets».

It is worth mentioning that «WPS Office» is a widely used productivity suite that is also cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Android and iOS), that is, it is for computers and mobile devices. It currently registers +/- 1.200 million installations.

«WPS Office» it can be considered as a high-performance solution, despite its affordability, and at the recognizable height of others such as Microsoft Office, with which it is very compatible and comparable. «Writer, Presentation y Spreadsheets» are just as robust as «Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel y Word».

WPS Office 2019: Supported Formats

WPS Office 2019: Supported Formats

The office suite «WPS Office» is produced by «WPS Office Software» which is a subsidiary of «Kingsoft Corporation», which is a leading software and Internet services company in China, established in 1989, but currently has Offices in the US, China and Hong Kong, has more than 900 employees and owns 6 R&D Centers. D.

In addition, «Kingsoft Corporation» is a leading global developer of office software solutions, developing productivity applications for the consumer and business markets. It currently has more than 1 billion registered users around the world.

All about WPS Office

Websites

«WPS Office» currently has a official site in spanish which has multilingual support. It also has a very useful official community in english, from where you can download the installation files, the interfaces (mui) and the multilingual dictionaries (dicts)ües, fonts (fonts), some tools (tools) and licenses. Currently, «WPS Office» goes for his «versión 11.2.0.8893» for Windows and «versión 11.1.0.8722» for Linux.

WPS Office 2019: Download Site

WPS Office 2019: Download Site

Despite not being an official site, the website of «Arch Linux» has an excellent Section on WPS. from which you can also download the installation files, interfaces (mui) and multiling dictionaries (dicts)ües, and some extensions created there available.

News, Features and Functions

New arrivals

Among many others, there are the following:

  • Added PDF component to support opening PDF documents (Kingsoft PDF Reader)
  • Added support for installing and running on Centos7.
  • Fixed various access problems to the cloud document account.
  • Fixed a bug with WPS tags, which would flicker, get lost, or get stuck.
  • Optimization of the process of installation, opening and printing of documents.
  • Fixed a bug with entering characters in the input box of the internal browser.
  • Added support for page margin adjustments when printing.
  • Added support for print attribute configuration memory.
  • Fixed the problem with WPS custom skin when opening and closing the application.
  • Fixed border issue in some dialog boxes.
  • Added character width adjustment function.
  • Added support for reading ink objects.
  • Added support for importing text files in formats like csv / prn / txt.
  • Fixed error when saving a shared OOXML workbook.
  • Fixed bug in the edition of shared workbooks on shared servers.
  • Added support to support converting presentations to video format.
  • Added voice recording function, enable content recording during a presentation.

Among the most outstanding, it is found that now said Office Suite no longer supports 32-bit versions.

WPS Office 2019: What's New, Features and Functions

WPS Office 2019: What's New, Features and Functions

General

  • Compatible with DEBIAN, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix and many others.
  • Fully compatible with Microsoft Office.
  • It has a Spell Checker available in more than 10 different languages.
  • Support from a large community of open source users.

Writer

  • Fully compatible with Microsoft Office (.DOC and .DOCX).
  • Allows the insertion of photos, graphics, and charts in documents.
  • Accepts rich text, plus page and paragraph formatting features.
  • Add track changes and comments.
  • Executes the opening of multiple documents using tabs.
  • Includes a paragraph adjustment tool to easily change the page format.

Presentation

  • Fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX).
  • It allows the insertion of photos, videos, personalized animation and more.
  • Accepts the creation of graphs, charts and tables.
  • Execute the opening of multiple presentations using tabs.

Spreadsheets

  • Fully compatible with Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX).
  • Supports functions for finance, statistics, IT, engineering, and more.
  • It allows the insertion of photos, graphs, charts and tables.
  • Includes an auto-fit of cells to their contents.
  • Includes hundreds of common functions and formulas.

Installation and configuration

Downloading, installing and configuring «WPS Office» (in Spanish) too easy. Basically the installer file is downloaded from the download section of the official community site in English, and later la interface in Spanish (es_ES.7z) and Spanish dictionary (es_ES.zip), from section ArchLinux website AUR. Then the WPS Office Suite using the executable with the command «dpkg» and unzip the interface and dictionary files in their respective folders which are:

  • Path Interface (MUI):
/opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/mui/
  • Dictionary Path (Dicts):
/opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/dicts/spellcheck/

It only remains to restart and test the operation and configuration in Spanish of it.

Note: The files for the Spanish interface (mui.7z) and Spanish dictionary (dicts.7z) can also be obtained and for now, in the following link. For an easier download and configuration.

File download

WPS Office 2019: File Download

WPS Office 2019: File Download

Running the application

Interface Validation in Spanish

Spanish Dictionary Check

Checking the installed version

Last but not least, It is noteworthy that WPS Office also provides some online PDF tools No need to download any software to convert your documents to PDF or vice versa. These PDF tools they are a 100% free solution to our problems of such PDF files.

Disadvantages

  • It is a proprietary and closed software package, although very modern and functional.
  • It does not support the LibreOffice Open Document Format or Standard (ODP / ODF).
  • Does not integrate multilingual supportüIt is for languages ​​other than Chinese and English. Support must be incorporated manually by copying files to paths protected by a normal user, on Linux.
  • The integration with MS Office Documents is very good but it needs to be polished to improve it.
  • The integration with the cloud, that is, being able to log in online is very useful, but work must be done to improve it to ensure connectivity and synchronization with used mail services such as Google.
  • They do not have official support in Spanish and other languages.
  • It usually consumes around 200 MB of RAM at startup, so on older and / or low-resource computers it can be a bit heavy to use.

Conclusion

As you can see «WPS Office» is an excellent and complete proprietary office suite, which comes with a free version and a paid version, and with good support, in English and Chinese, by a wide community of users and with excellent online content for socialization and massification of it. In case you choose to use it, we recommend that you periodically be aware of what is shared by your community or your Blog.

Ultimately, «WPS Office» it's just an excellent «alternativa privativa» a «LibreOffice», for those who like installable programs on «Linux», that they comply or not, with the philosophy of «Software Libre», but that effectively and efficiently meet your needs.

That is, while «LibreOffice» is the best «Suite Ofimática» de «Software Libre» about «Linux», «WPS Office» represents only an excellent «alternativa privativa» about «Linux», among some others, such as «FreeOffice», regarding the management of office automation files «MS Office» refers.  «WPS Office» It is not to replace partially or completely «LibreOffice» but to complement it in the work tasks with the files of «MS Office».


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  1.   arg0s said

    Well, I'm glad the author likes this suite. It is a great solution, perfectly functional, cheap or free and very well finished. What I wanted to say is that it honestly felt more like an infomercial than an article. At least there should be some criticism, right? I don't know .. what a proprietary solution? That it is not 100% compatible with Office because of the problems that Microsoft puts up? (the macros are not 100% compatible, for example.) I suppose it was a translation error, but I was particularly amused by the fact that it has more than a billion registered users worldwide. To reach that number of users would need at least 200 worlds like Earth xD.

    1.    mikelet said

      Everything you have said, plus and is it not compatible with ODT documents?

      1.    Linux PostInstall said

        Greetings Mikelete. They certainly can't stand it and have no plans for it. This official statement states: http://wps-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26&p=96

      2.    Cesar de los RABOS said

        Well, keeping in mind the population density in China; plus people from the rest of the world, who do not stop having a quota, IN ADDITION to installations on Android phones… the account of installations is sure to be accurate, even if it was uninstalled immediately!

        1.    Linux PostInstall said

          Greetings, Caesar. Many of those installations will probably no longer be active. As with any other program.

    2.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings, Argo. The article says: "Currently +/- 1.200 billion installs." If you add that the Office Suite is China, and it is used in Android, iOS, Windows and Linux. Surely only within China these figures can be reached, since there were 1.400 million inhabitants, by 2018, and they grow at a rate of +/- 2.500.000 people a year. And yes, he believed that the worst thing they have is the current and future non-support of the ODF standard. And of course, that compatibility with MS Windows will probably never reach 100%, but that is understood, since both are proprietary.

  2.   rannol said

    If the Spanish language were integrated by default, everything would be simpler.
    Otherwise it is an interesting alternative to LibreOffice

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Certainly!

  3.   Alexandros said

    It strikes me that you speak of a proprietary suite as this departs from the principles of free software. I find Libreoffice to be the best solution for open source supporters.
    By not allowing the Libreoffice format you make it clear what your intentions are.

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings, Alexandro. WPS is just an excellent alternative for those who like installable programs on Linux, whether or not they comply with the Free Software philosophy. And yes, LibreOffice is the best Free Software Office Suite on Linux, but WPS is just an excellent proprietary alternative on Linux. One thing does not exclude or minimize the other.

  4.   Victor Guerrero said

    "Has always been a solid opponent of" LibreOffice "on" Linux Operating Systems ". Since it has always been an excellent alternative solution to it »…. Oo "for being a free set": O I am not one of the so-called purist of the Free Software philosophy but it seems to me that in these words the Author conveys the idea that the purpose of Linux Software is to be Free…. (It will be advertising to pay the operating expenses of the page)

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings, Victor. My answer is the same as I gave Alexandro: LibreOffice is the best Free Software Office Suite on Linux, but WPS is just an excellent proprietary alternative on Linux. One thing does not exclude or minimize the other.

  5.   wismell said

    Excellent application, I use it on my smartphone and as a teacher I always recommend it to my students as an office automation alternative

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Yes, it is an excellent exclusive alternative to recommend, especially if it is used on mobile devices since this way office automation convergence is achieved a bit.

  6.   Ivan war said

    I have the 2019 version of this App installed in Windows 10 Enterprise that only incorporates MS Office online, and I wanted therefore to have something more private installed on my Laptop. I was suffering with the 2016 version of WPS which meant a headache due to the number of errors, I communicated with the developers, like other people and for the 2019 version it improved considerably.
    However, some errors persist, and these are: Always write a capital letter after each point as if each point of the abbreviations were a full stop, in Android it does the same, example: ... etc. They have not solved it ..., as you can see in this example, there is a capital letter after the period and that is wrong.
    It also does the same when changing from one page to another, when you write a long text of several pages, always on the next page write capital letters.
    It also has the ability to log in online, but it almost never recognizes my Google account, on several occasions I have had the need to reconfigure it.
    It also offers the cloud storage service, but (hahaha!), I have never been able to upload any files, it is the closest thing to a real cloud.
    It also offers the use of pre-designed sheets online, but these are very old-fashioned, they look like the advertising images of the China of the 70's. At the same time, these are very heavy and resource consuming and make your device very slow.
    I contacted the developers again and they responded in English, and apparently they didn't understand a word in Spanish.
    On the other hand, the use of LibreOffice seems a bit tricky when it comes to compatibility with Windows. There you have it, cheers!

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings, Ivan. Thanks for your input. I have already incorporated a small section on "Disadvantages" and modified the "Conclusion" to highlight the issue of its uniqueness.

  7.   doest said

    It seems to me a good article to publicize that WPS office has a new version.

    But for me as you have lacked what nuances in the section "1.3 Installation and Configuration"

    Because you only show the program already with the configuration in Spanish, with its corresponding dictionary added. But you do not mention where you have downloaded the interface and the dictionary and much less how you have added it to the system or within the user's home -_- «» »

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings, Doest. Thank you for your observation. I already added more details there.

      1.    sebastianovzky said

        I would also like to know that, in my case I just installed Debian and then installed wps, but it comes in English, did you manage to put it in Spanish?

  8.   Murdok said

    Well, for more laps I have given I have not found the interface file in Spanish
    The closest I've been is:

    http://wps-community.org/download/mui
    File Name File Size Last Modified SHA1
    .. - - -

    Is it somewhere else? or have they removed it?

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Download it from the Arch Linux page. Here I leave the link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wps-office-mui-es-es/

  9.   Juan Valdes said

    I don't like it at all but thanks to whoever took the time to write the text

  10.   Leo Jimenez said

    It focuses on closed non-standard formats, in addition to the suite being closed. In other words, it does not compete with LibreOffice, an open suite that supports open standards such as ODF or PDF that frees us from restrictive and changing closed licenses. It competes against Microsoft Office, a closed suite with closed formats that are incompatible even with the different versions of Office.

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings, Leo! Certainly, although in the article it was already explicitly emphasized that "" WPS Office "represents only an excellent" proprietary alternative "over" Linux ", among some others, such as" FreeOffice ", regarding the management of" MS Office "office files. " it means. "WPS Office" is not to replace partially or completely "LibreOffice" but to complement it in work tasks with "MS Office" files. " It is worth the reinforcement on the point. Also, in the disadvantages section, the bad thing about it is already mentioned. But, despite its negative points, it is an excellent Office Suite that was worth reviewing for the general knowledge of all. In summary, thank you for your comment and contribution.

  11.   Irving Barrier said

    WPS has never represented a viable suite for me, for a reason, it does not have a real function for citations and bibliographies nor does it support reference processors such as Zotero or Mendeley, essential features that make my experience in such software unproductive.

  12.   Jose Manuel Postigo said

    The page http://wps-community.org/downloads it goes into a redirect loop and at least I'm not currently being accessed.

    I found a link https://github.com/wps-community/wps_i18n.git where it easily integrates the Spanish packages.

    Just run:

    git clone https://github.com/wps-community/wps_i18n.git
    cd es_ES
    make install

    If you want it to affect all users, previously elevate privileges to administrator or run sudo make install

    1.    sebastianovzky said

      Sorry, I just installed Debian and read this article, I already have wps installed, pro is not in Spanish.

      run what you said in terminal, but it returned this to me:

      root @ Alpha: / home / sebastianovzky # git clone https://github.com/wps-community/wps_i18n.git
      bash: git: command not found

      What I can do? First of all, Thanks.

      1.    Linux PostInstall said

        Greetings, Sebastianovzky. I have already updated the Installation and Configuration section with the new links from where you can more easily download the compressed files of the interface and the dictionary in Spanish. And a little further down you will find a note with a link to them plus the fonts in ".deb" format, so that everything is easier. I finished installing and testing everything in Spanish successfully, using the ".deb" files.

  13.   IsaacVVVVV said

    I can't find how to configure it in Spanish, the aur links are broken.