Track changes
Turn revision marks on before you edit someone else’s draft. Accept/reject still exists. Simple insertions and deletions survive a trip to Microsoft Word. Nested comments, custom review panes, and legal-compare workflows are Word’s house — if a firm lives there, do not be the last person to save the contract in WPS the night before signing. Freeze a PDF for the signature packet. Writer.
Comments
Select text, add a comment, resolve when done. Keep comments attached to a span of text, not to a floating text box. Floating boxes are how comments fall off in Word. If a comment vanishes, it was probably parked on a drawing object.
Cloud sharing
Upload to WPS Cloud, share view / comment / edit, then revoke. A link is a postcard. Named people beat “anyone with the link” for grades and HR. Real-time co-edit needs both sides online and is still clumsier than Google Docs for five people in one brief. Cloud · Drive apps.
Conflict copies
Two devices offline will spawn a second file. Keep the larger one, diff carefully, delete the ghost. Agree on a single editor the night before a deadline. Priya’s campus note in stories is this problem with a student ID attached.
When to switch tools
- Five people typing at once → Google Docs, then export DOCX if the tutor wants Word.
- A law firm’s compare-and-redline ritual → Microsoft Word.
- A shop sending a one-way invoice PDF → WPS is plenty.
Comparison table: WPS vs 365 vs Google vs LibreOffice.