Kingsoft Office offers two skins: a Ribbon-like UI and a classic, drop-down menu-based interface. You can even have the documents open side by side, top to bottom, or cascaded. This makes it incredibly simple to switch back and forth between documents and doesn't clutter your desktop. Every time you open a new document (either within Writer, Spreadsheets, or Presentations), it will open as a new tab within the main window. Unlike the other office suites, Kingsoft makes it simple to work with multiple windows by taking a page from the world of web browsers. Backup management works very much like the OpenOffice crash recovery, only you have access to the tool even when a crash has not occurred. You also set up the frequency of autosaves, which works in conjunction with the backup management. Kingsoft Writer creates an initial backup upon first save. This is one feature that really makes Kingsoft Office stand out. As well, the Page Layout tab allows you to easily add/change things like orientation, size, breaks, columns, line numbers, text wrapping, and text direction. There is also an abundance of what Kingsoft calls Materials (lines, connectors, shapes, arrows, images, buttons, etc.) that you can quickly add to the document. With the new Paragraph Layout tool, you can drag and drop your paragraph layouts (on a per-paragraph basis) to make the document look exactly how you need it to look. Kingsoft Office Writer is almost like a word processor/page layout tool in one. But as for Microsoft Office compatibility, Kingsoft bests LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

You need to save those documents in the Microsoft Office format (or, say, RTF) to open them. Although Kingsoft Office is highly compatible with the Microsoft Office formats, it is not compatible with LibreOffice/OpenOffice default formats. You can open/save documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) from Microsoft Office 97/2000/2003/2007/2010 (in both standard and compressed formats). The Kingsoft suite was developed with compatibility in mind and it shows. Kingsoft Office has a high compatibility with the de facto standard in business - Microsoft Office. Though it doesn't contain all the tools offered by either Microsoft Office or LibreOffice (it offers only a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tools), it's far more cost effective than the Microsoft offering and more stable than the LibreOffice alternative.ĭon't believe me? Until you actually try out the tool, the best way I can convince you is to give you 10 solid reasons why Kingsoft Office is superior to the competition. That's a shame because it's one of the best office suites on the market. Unless you live in China, you've probably never heard of Kingsoft Office.

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