WPS Collaboration History on macOS: Introduction

WPS Collaboration History helps you review member activity in collaborative spreadsheets; it includes 3 core tasks, with 3 available without membership and 0 membership-related items.

At a Glance

Metric	Value	Notes
Core tasks	3	Matches the number of rows in the How-to Index
Available without membership	3	Matches the number of Free rows in the index
Membership-related items	0	All listed tasks are currently available directly

About This Feature

Overview

Collaboration History lets you review the activity records of all collaborators in a shared spreadsheet, so your team can track who changed the file, what they changed, and when the change happened.

On macOS, this feature is commonly used to:

review the collaboration record list in reverse chronological order,
narrow records by person, action type, and time range,
locate changed content from a record and restore content when needed.

It is useful for multi-person spreadsheet maintenance, edit review, mistake tracing, and checking important changes during team collaboration.

System Requirements

Item	Requirement
Operating system	A Mac device that can run WPS Office for Mac
App version	The latest version of WPS Office is recommended
Network	A stable internet connection is recommended for opening shared online spreadsheets, loading collaboration records, and syncing changes
Other	Sign in to your WPS account and make sure the file is a collaborative online spreadsheet

Download & Installation

Item	Details
Official download	WPS Office Free Download
Post-install check	Launch WPS Office for Mac, open a collaborative spreadsheet, and check whether the Collaboration History entry is available from the top Collaboration tab or the File menu

Source: WPS download page

Compare with Alternatives

Dimension	WPS	Microsoft	Google	Notion	Adobe
Capability Summary	Provides a collaboration history panel for shared spreadsheets, showing editor, action type, and action time, with support for filtering, locating content, and restoring content.	Microsoft Word versioning depends on OneDrive or SharePoint storage and focuses on version history, AutoSave, and co-authoring.	Google Docs supports version history, restoring earlier versions, copying older versions, and checking who last updated a file and when.	Notion pages provide Updates and Page history, with options to review changes, restore older versions, and view last edited information through properties.	Adobe Acrobat focuses on PDF review and comment management, including shared review and comment tools, which fits document review workflows more than spreadsheet collaboration tracking.
WPS Advantages	Advantage: WPS brings member operation records together in one spreadsheet-focused panel and supports locating changed content or restoring content directly from a record.	Compared with WPS: Microsoft emphasizes file-level version management and online co-authoring, with less direct focus on a panel for filtering individual collaboration actions in a spreadsheet workflow.	Compared with WPS: Google offers strong version history, but its official guidance focuses more on browsing and restoring versions than on spreadsheet collaboration records with direct filtering and content restore actions.	Compared with WPS: Notion is better aligned with page updates and knowledge-base maintenance than with spreadsheet-specific action filtering and content restore workflows.	Compared with WPS: Adobe is centered on PDF review and comments rather than collaboration history for spreadsheet editing records.
Official Source	—	Use versioning with Word	Find what's changed in a file	Tips to keep your team’s Notion pages up to date	Add and manage comments

Overall Conclusion
If your main goal is to review detailed spreadsheet collaboration actions, quickly filter by person or time range, and restore content from a record, WPS fits that workflow well. Other products are more focused on file-level versioning, page update tracking, or PDF review, depending on the document type and collaboration model you use.

Use Cases

No.	Scenario	Suitable For	Main Pain Point	How It Helps
1	Review multi-user editing activity	Team collaborators	It is unclear who changed the spreadsheet and when	Open the collaboration history list and review editors and timestamps in reverse chronological order
2	Filter one person’s actions quickly	Project owners, reviewers	It is hard to find one person’s edits when there are many records	Use filters by editor or action type to narrow the list
3	Locate an incorrect change	Spreadsheet maintainers	Abnormal data appears but the changed location is hard to find	Click a collaboration record to locate the related content and review the highlighted area
4	Restore changed content	Collaboration teams	A change needs to be rolled back	Use content restore from the record details
5	Recheck edits during review stages	Managers, auditors	Key-stage edit trails need to be reviewed again	Filter records by time range to inspect stage-based changes

Membership & Benefits

Free vs WPS Premium

Capability	Free Users	WPS Premium
View collaboration history	✅ Available	✅ Available
Filter records by editor, type, or time	✅ Available	✅ Available
Locate content and restore content from records	✅ Available	✅ Available
Other value-added tools such as advanced PDF features and more cloud storage	Depends on the plan scope	More advanced capabilities are available based on the purchased plan

Source: WPS Office pricing page

Recommendations

Usage Scenario	Recommended Plan	Why
Daily review of collaboration history, filtering, and edit tracing	Free	This feature currently has no membership restriction for the listed tasks
Need collaboration history together with more PDF, cloud, or advanced office features	WPS Premium	Suitable if you want collaboration history together with broader advanced office capabilities

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