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WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby fraterlinux » Feb 25th, '14, 12:29

When is Microsoft Office not Microsoft Office? When it’s actually a faithfully-crafted imitation, of course!

WPS Office, built by Chinese development group Kingsoft, claims to be the leading free office suite in China. And with such a familiar looking interface that’s not a difficult notion to swallow.

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Three applications make up the suite:

Writer – Word processing application
Presentation – Slideshow presentation maker
Spreadsheets – Spreadsheet application

Each of the apps are incredibly familiar in look to their Microsoft counterparts.

Compared to other free offerings like LibreOffice, Google Docs, and Lotus Symphony, WPS has a distinct advantage: a lower learning curve for those already versed, trained, or used to the Windows apps.

Trivial sounding, sure. But for many the notion of having relearn what they already know fosters reluctance. WPS, with its marriage of free and familiar, has a good punt at solving this.
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The Qt suite apes the interface of Microsoft’s ‘Ribbon’ interface, and whilst I can’t tell you whether it’s 100% accurate in its replication (I haven’t used Microsoft Office long enough to tell), it’s certainly authentic looking.

For non-Ribbon fans WPS Office comes with the option of enabling the old, menu-based Office look: "Classic Look"

WPS Office also adds a few handy features of its own, including an online pool of document templates and the ability to edit multiple documents in tabs.

Download WPS Office RPM for Mageia

http://wps-community.org/download.html
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 25th, '14, 13:07

One major drawback that should be noted, which is present in Microsoft Office, but not in Kingsoft Office: ODF support.
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby fraterlinux » Feb 25th, '14, 13:24

"Why not develop ODF support?
A fatal reason is we have no people!"

http://wps-community.org/faq.html

Q: Does Kingsoft office plan to support odf? ref
A: We're sorry, but we just don't have the team to support odf. This post has more information on that. http://wps-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26&p=96
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby tarakbumba » Feb 25th, '14, 16:54

doktor5000 wrote:One major drawback that should be noted, which is present in Microsoft Office, but not in Kingsoft Office: ODF support.


That is a shame. Also, main problem with Open/Libre Office vs. Microsoft Office is opening and working on MS formats. Most of the time tables etc. seems corrupted when we open MS formats with Open/Libre Office. I think interface does not a lot matter.
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 26th, '14, 03:04

@fraterlinux: Why do you repost that here? I've read the FAQ and the forum post.
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby fraterlinux » Feb 26th, '14, 11:34

It really became redundant. It was just a literary way to emphasize something...
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby fraterlinux » Mar 4th, '14, 01:58

Torrents for each archive (Alpha 12, Patch 13) and as the web admin of Linux Mint Romania I uploaded them on our site:
[DEB] http://www.linuxmint.ro/torrents/kingso ... eb.torrent
[RPM] http://www.linuxmint.ro/torrents/kingso ... pm.torrent
[XZ] http://www.linuxmint.ro/torrents/kingso ... xz.torrent
[ALL] http://www.linuxmint.ro/torrents/kingso ... ll.torrent (this includes all 3 archives)

kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_i386.deb
SHA1: 17ec28b5e4a765c36ad6775c6a7e83aa39753018

kingsoft-office-9.1.0.4244-0.1.a12p3.i686.rpm
SHA1: f0b29bf441875fb1760962dc116499054b839c94

kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4244~a12p3_x86.tar.xz
SHA1: a7f504791c10fc05bafb1b5697ffdfa9fd68ad9a

Happy sharing! :)
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby jiml8 » Mar 4th, '14, 17:48

Personally, I think that functionality is far more important than appearance. If they don't have the manpower to support odf format, then how much manpower do they have to replicate VBA - which, of course, is THE major strength of the microsoft office suite? Also, of course, Excel stands head and shoulders above any other spreadsheet on the planet. IMO, microsoft has gone too far with Excel, trying to make it a database as well (and it is poor at that job) but along the way they have built a program with simply incredible capability.

So, once you get past the interface on this package, how faithful is the replication, really?
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Re: WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

Postby fraterlinux » Aug 22nd, '14, 22:31

http://wps-community.org/download.html wrote:WPS Office for Linux Alpha15 [2014-08-15]
What's new:

WPS Writer supports restrict editing now.
WPS Writer can go back last editing position when you reopen the document.
WPS Writer supports split window for easy reading.
WPS Writer added mirror margins for printing.
WPS Writer enhanced go to function.
WPS Writer supports complex text layout now (testing).
WPS Spreadsheets now supports share workbook.
WPS Spreadsheets will give you the tips when typing a function.
WPS Spreadsheets supports finding/replacing with format now.
WPS Spreadsheets supports formula error checking now.

Notes:

Now we renamed Kingsoft Office to WPS Office globally (WPS Office only use in China mainland previous).
You must uninstall the old version to works with this new package.
From now on, we split the package to main package (wps-office), language package (wps-office-mui) and font package (wps-office-fonts, most of the time you don't need this package unless you deal with CJK documents frequently). The main package include English resource only, you can download other supports mui package.
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