DECEMBER 2019 MACWORLD 107collaborates with others, it’s time to take
a new breed of all-in-one Office clones
for a spin.
ALL FOR ONE
WPS Office for Mac (go.macworld.com/wpof)
provides Microsoft-style word processing,
spreadsheets, and presentations in a single
native macOS application under 300MB in
size. For comparison’s sake, that’s less than
a third of the disk space required to install
Word alone.
Unlike the popular suite of standalone
applications united by corporate synergy,
WPS Writer, Spreadsheets, and
Presentation documents coexist within a
single tabbed workspace. This approach
keeps the screen free of window clutter
when jumping between different
document types, with the option to
consolidate multiple documents of the
same ilk into a split-screen view. Naturally,
you can drag tabs into their own
workspace as well.
Otherwise, WPS Office faithfully
mimics the look, feel, and features of
Microsoft’s venerable software, although
there’s no real-time collaboration. Writer
isn’t quite as robust, with little things like
contextual menu synonyms—many
common words I looked up offered no
suggestions at all. The app doesn’t do aWho needs Microsoft Word when WPS Writer does almost everything for cheaper while
retaining the same look and feel?