Name | WPS | XLS |
Full name | WPS - WPS Office | XLS - Microsoft Excel Binary File Format |
File extension | .wps | .xls |
MIME type | application/kswps | application/vnd.ms-excel |
Developed by | Kingsoft | Microsoft |
Type of format | Document file format | Spreadsheet |
Description | WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android OS, developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer Kingsoft. WPS Office is a suite of software which is made up of three primary components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, and WPS Spreadsheet. | Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Excel Binary File Format (.XLS) as its primary format. Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its primary file format, an XML-based format that followed after a previous XML-based format called 'XML Spreadsheet'. |
Technical details | .wps is the file extension used for Kingsoft Writer Documents. This extension was also used by Microsoft Works. The format is similar to a Microsoft Word document (.DOC or. DOCX file) and supports formatted text, images, and advanced page formatting. Kingsoft Writer documents can be converted to Microsoft Word *.doc files in the software. | OpenOffice.org has created documentation of the Excel format. Since then Microsoft made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download. |
File conversion | WPS conversion | XLS conversion |
Associated programs | WPS Office | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. |
Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS_Office | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#File_formats |