WPS Text Styles on Android: Introduction

WPS Text Styles on Android helps you format text in smart documents quickly; this guide covers 6 core tasks, with 6 available without membership and 0 membership-related items.

At a Glance

Metric	Value	Notes
Core tasks	6	Matches the number of rows in the How-to Index
Available without membership	6	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

Text Styles is a text-formatting feature in WPS Office smart documents on Android. It helps you adjust how text looks so you can emphasize headings, mark key points, and organize content while editing on your phone or tablet.

Core capabilities include:

Bold text for headings, keywords, and emphasis.
Italic text for notes, quotes, or supporting content.
Underline for text that needs attention.
Strikethrough for revisions, completed items, or content to remove later.
Font color for visual categorization.
Highlight color for background emphasis.

This feature is useful for class notes, mobile document editing, collaborative revisions, and everyday formatting.

System Requirements

Item	Requirement
Operating system	Android phone or tablet
App version	Recommended: the latest version of WPS Office
Network	No mandatory connection for local editing; a network connection is recommended for sign-in, sync, or sharing
Other	You need to open a smart document and enter editing mode

Download & Installation

Item	Details
Official download	WPS Office Free Download
Check after installation	Open WPS Office, open a smart document, tap Edit in the lower-right corner, then tap Aa at the bottom to access text style options

Source: WPS Download Center

Compare with Alternatives

Dimension	WPS	Microsoft	Google	Notion	Adobe
Capability Summary	On Android smart documents, WPS supports bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font color, and highlight color from the bottom Aa panel in editing mode.	Word for Android tablets supports bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, font color, and highlight.	Google Docs on Android supports bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, text color, and highlight color.	Notion supports bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, text color, and highlight color, with styling also available through Markdown on mobile.	Adobe Acrobat on Android focuses on PDF markup, including highlight, underline, strike-through, and comments rather than body-text styling in a word-processing document.
WPS Advantages	Advantage: WPS keeps 6 common text-style controls in one editing panel, which is convenient for continuous formatting on a phone.	Compared with WPS: official guidance confirms a similar formatting range, but the page is written for Android tablets.	Compared with WPS: the formatting range is similar, mainly through the Format entry in Google Docs.	Compared with WPS: styling is tied more closely to page blocks and Markdown workflows than to a traditional mobile document formatting panel.	Compared with WPS: Adobe is better aligned with PDF review and annotation than with smart-document text formatting.
Official Source	—	Format your Word document	Change how paragraphs and fonts look	Style and customize your page	Annotate PDFs on Android

Overall Conclusion
WPS Text Styles is well suited to quick text emphasis and markup in Android smart documents. Its capability range is close to Word and Google Docs for common text styling, while it stays more focused on document-body editing than Notion or Adobe Acrobat in this scenario.

Use Cases

No.	Scenario	Suitable For	Pain Point	How Text Styles Helps
1	Heading emphasis	Students and office users	Headings do not stand out enough on mobile	Use bold or font color to make headings clearer
2	Revision marking	Editors and collaborators	Content to remove needs a visible mark	Use strikethrough to mark text for revision
3	Review highlights	Students and trainees	Important lines are hard to revisit	Use highlight color to mark key sentences
4	Information grouping	Project members	Different content levels look mixed together	Use different font colors to separate information
5	Notes and references	Writers and note takers	Supporting text blends into the main body	Use italic or underline to create distinction

Membership & Benefits

Free vs WPS Premium

Capability	Free	WPS Premium
Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough	✅ Available	✅ Available
Font color and highlight color	✅ Available	✅ Available
Other advanced benefits	Depends on the current account page and available services	Depends on the current subscription page and available premium services

Source: WPS Office pricing page

Recommendations

Usage Scenario	Recommended Plan	Why
Everyday mobile editing, class notes, and basic emphasis	Free	The 6 common Text Styles tasks in this guide are available directly
Long-term use with broader premium services across WPS features	WPS Premium	Suitable if you also need additional premium services beyond this feature

Membership page: Subscribe to WPS Premium