WPS Collaboration Table Styles on Android helps you apply preset table appearances and highlight fills in documents; this guide covers 1 core task, with 1 available without membership and 0 membership-related items.
At a Glance
| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Core tasks | 1 | Matches the number of rows in the How-to Index |
| Available without membership | 1 | Matches the number of Free rows in the index |
| Membership-related items | 0 | Matches the number of membership-related rows in the index |
About This Feature
Overview
Collaboration Table Styles is a table formatting feature in WPS Office for Android documents. It lets you apply a consistent visual style to a selected table with borders, fills, and color presets.
Key capabilities include:
- Open the table style panel to adjust table appearance in one place.
- Apply highlight fills to the first row, last row, first column, and last column.
- Turn on banded rows and banded columns to improve readability.
- Choose a style color from the preview area and apply it to the current table.
This feature is useful for meeting notes, collaborative documents, project lists, and data summary tables where you want a cleaner and more consistent layout on mobile.
System Requirements
| Item | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Android device |
| App version | It is recommended to use the latest version of WPS Office |
| Network | No mandatory network connection is required for local table style changes; sign-in and sync features require network access |
| Other | You need to insert or select a table in a WPS document before using this feature |
Download & Installation
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Official download | WPS Office Free Download |
| Post-install check | Open WPS Office, open a document, select a table, and confirm that Table Properties and Table Style are available |
Source: WPS download page
Compare with Alternatives
| Dimension | WPS | Microsoft | Notion | Adobe | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability Summary | On Android, you can open the Table Style panel from Table Properties, then set first-row, last-row, first-column, last-column, banded-row, and banded-column fills, and choose a style color from the preview area. | Microsoft Word official guidance describes table style formatting and style modification for table areas, with more emphasis on desktop style management. | Google Docs official guidance supports table formatting such as border style, background color, alignment, and cell padding, mainly through table options and cell-level formatting. | Notion official guidance explains that simple tables can add rows, columns, and headers for structured text, while databases support table views, filters, and sorting. | Adobe Acrobat official guidance focuses on table tagging, header scope, and accessibility handling in PDFs rather than authoring-style table appearance presets. |
| WPS Advantages | Advantage: On mobile, WPS provides a focused table style panel for highlight fills and style preview, which fits quick document formatting workflows. | Compared with WPS: official guidance is more centered on desktop style creation and modification, with less emphasis on a mobile-first style panel workflow. | Compared with WPS: Google Docs supports many table formatting controls, but the official guidance focuses more on manual formatting options than on a preset style panel. | Compared with WPS: Notion is stronger for structured information organization and database views, while preset styling for traditional document tables is more limited. | Compared with WPS: Acrobat focuses on PDF accessibility and table recognition rather than direct document table styling during editing. |
| Official Source | — | Format or customize a table of contents in Word | Add and edit tables | Simple tables vs databases | Complex tables |
Overall Conclusion
If you want to quickly standardize table appearance in collaborative documents on Android, WPS offers a workflow that is well suited to mobile editing. The other products also support table-related tasks, but their official guidance focuses more on desktop style management, manual formatting, information organization, or PDF accessibility.
Use Cases
| No. | Scenario | Suitable for | Main challenge | How this feature helps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Organizing meeting notes | Team members, project assistants | Key table information does not stand out clearly | Use first-row fill and banded rows to make the structure easier to read |
| 2 | Beautifying a project tracker | Project managers, collaborators | Table styles are inconsistent | Choose a unified style color from the preview area |
| 3 | Improving a data summary table | Students, teachers, office users | Rows and columns are hard to scan | Use first-column, last-column, and banded-column fills for clearer distinction |
| 4 | Standardizing collaborative documents | Team collaborators | Tables look inconsistent after multiple edits | Adjust the appearance from the Table Style panel in one place |
| 5 | Quick mobile table cleanup | Mobile office users | Manual cell-by-cell formatting is inconvenient | Apply a table style directly and confirm the result |
Membership & Benefits
Free vs WPS Premium
This feature is available without a membership. The WPS subscription page provides current plan and benefit details, and the exact offering depends on the live page.
| Capability | Free users | WPS Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Basic use of table styles | Available | Available |
| Other advanced office benefits | Based on what is shown in the product | Based on what is shown on the subscription page |
| Account and subscription services | Basic account features | Access to additional membership options and services |
Source: WPS Office pricing page
Recommendations
| Usage scenario | Recommended plan | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You only need to adjust table styles in documents | Free | This feature can be used directly without a membership requirement |
| You also need additional subscription benefits for broader office work | WPS Premium | Suitable if you want access to more membership services in one account |
How to Subscribe
- WPS membership center: Subscribe now
Source: WPS Office pricing page