Documents are a crucial part of any job. Documentation is crucial to be prepared for busy season or handing over a project to another team member. Documentation that is well-organized allows you to provide a wealth of information from account logins to step-bystep instructions that your team can trust when the work picks up. Documentation can also save time since you don’t need to search through emails or download files to locate the information you need.
Document — (noun) is a piece of paper that contains information for official purposes like an invoice, contract or letter. Document can also be an unwritten record of something, like a journal entry or a school report. Documents are either semistructured or unstructured. Unstructured documents include handwritten notes, letters and newspaper articles; semistructured ones include databases, books and blogs online. Document can also be a work of nonfiction that provides the reader with a reference study or comparison such as manuscripts, illustrations, printed matter photographs, maps and museum specimens.
On an macOS device documents are a file that stores formatting and text in a format that can be printed on standard paper, or viewed on screens. Documents can be created using macOS applications such as Pages and TextEdit and also by using templates available in the App Store. For more information, visit the Apple Documentation for Pages and the Apple Documentation for TextEdit. You can also seek assistance with these applications and other by selecting Help in the menu bar, or by searching for “document” while working.