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Works / WPS Office document to Word DOCX converter

WPS → DOCX handles both kinds of .wps file: Microsoft Works word-processor documents and WPS Office Writer files, which are Word documents under a different extension.

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From real runs

What you get — and what changes

  • Text and character formatting Kept

    A 9-page Works manuscript kept all 4,973 words with its italics, and a recipe kept its underlined headings with no stray strikethrough, a fault older importers added to every line.

  • Pictures Kept

    A Works clip-art elephant became a 24 KB WMF picture inside the DOCX, so it stays sharp when resized.

  • WPS Office tables and numbering Kept

    A Chinese procurement document from WPS Office came out with its 7 tables, numbered requirement lists and page headers and footers.

  • Chinese font names Kept

    The WPS Office file kept its font names (宋体, 仿宋_GB2312, 黑体), so a computer with those fonts shows the text in the intended typefaces.

  • Works fonts Changed

    Works documents mostly use Times New Roman and Arial; the DOCX keeps those names, and Word uses them directly.

  • DOS Works character sets Changed

    A Works 2 for DOS code-page test file in Cyrillic converted almost entirely correctly, but one capital letter (К) was dropped. German umlauts in another DOS Works file were all correct.

  • Paragraph styles Changed

    Works has no named heading styles, so every paragraph arrives as Normal with direct formatting; apply Word heading styles if you want a table of contents.

Sample conversions

Works manuscript

Input
64,000-byte Microsoft Works 6–9 document: the opening chapters of a novel, set in Times New Roman with italic emphasis.
Output
18,746-byte DOCX in 1.1 s with all 4,973 words and every italic span.

WPS Office procurement document

Input
173,925-byte .wps saved by WPS Office: a Chinese government tender specification with seven tables and multi-level numbering.
Output
54,408-byte DOCX in 2.4 s with the Chinese text, tables, numbering and per-section headers and footers. It is an ordinary DOCX from then on.

Works recipe card

Input
9,728-byte Works document with underlined section headings and ingredient lines.
Output
5,279-byte DOCX in 1.0 s; headings underlined, body text plain, one Letter page.

A real Works / WPS Office document → Word DOCX run

We converted our Works / WPS Office document sample (10 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 2.8 s and produced a 5 KB Word DOCX file, 53% smaller than the input. The engine raised 1 warning, listed below.

Input · sample.wps · 10 KB

9,728 bytes

Output · sample.docx · 5 KB

Word document: 2 paragraphs, 0 headings, 0 tables, 0 embedded images; fonts Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans

Paragraphs
2
Headings
0
Tables
0
Images
0
Archive parts
9
Fonts
Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans
  • Fonts that are not installed on our servers are replaced with substitutes, so lines can wrap differently.

Options and when to change them

filter
Leave it empty. Works and WPS Office files are told apart from their contents, and the Word export is fixed; the key exists for scripted overrides.

Do it yourself

LibreOffice

bash
soffice --headless --convert-to "docx:MS Word 2007 XML" --outdir out letter.wps

Give the explicit filter name: some .wps files are really saved web pages, and plain --convert-to docx stops with 'no export filter' on those.

WPS Office

bash
File → Save As → Word Document (*.docx)

Free for Windows, macOS and Linux, and the exact route for files it saved itself.

Works / WPS Office document to Word DOCX by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=wps&to=docx.

curl
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.wps" -F "from=wps" -F "to=docx" \
  --output output.docx
API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

  • If you only need to read or print the file, WPS → PDF avoids the question of fonts on the reader's computer.
  • If the .wps was exported by a hospital or business system and opens in a web browser, it is HTML with a .wps name; HTML → DOCX describes that conversion more accurately.
  • If Microsoft Works is still installed, saving a Word copy from Works is fine for a single file; this route is for when Works is gone.

Works / WPS Office document to Word DOCX questions

How do I know whether my .wps is from Works or WPS Office?

You do not need to. A Microsoft Works file and a WPS Office file share the extension but not the inside, and we detect which one it is before converting. As a rule of thumb, Works files date from before 2010, when Works was discontinued, and WPS Office still saves .wps today.

Why did Word say it could not open my .wps file?

Word has no built-in reader for Microsoft Works documents, and the separate Works converter Microsoft once offered is no longer available. WPS Office files are Word 97 documents inside, but Word does not expect that from a .wps name.

Are Works 2000 and Works 4 files supported too?

Yes. Files from Works for DOS, Works 3 and 4 for Windows, Works 2000 and Works 6 to 9 all converted in our tests. A .wps file that turns out to be plain text is refused with a note to rename it .txt.

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