Documents are an essential part of any job. Documentation is crucial regardless of whether you’re planning for a busy season or handing over an assignment to a team member. Documentation that is well-organized allows you to provide an abundance of details from account logins to step-by-step instructions your team can lean on when the work is getting more intense. Documentation also reduces time, as you won’t need to go through documents or emails to find the information you require.
Document Document (noun) A piece of paper that has official information, such as receipt, contract, or letter. Documents can be written record, like an entry in a journal, or a report for school. A document can be unstructured or semistructured. Unstructured documents include handwritten notes, newspaper articles, and letters; semistructured documents include databases, books, and online blogs. Documents can also be a work of nonfiction which serves as a reference to study or compare, such as manuscripts illustrations, printed matter, photographs, maps and museum specimens.
On the macOS device the word “document” refers to a file that contains formatting and text in a format that can be printed on a standard piece of paper, or displayed on an LCD screen. You can create documents with macOS applications such as Pages and TextEdit and templates available from the App Store. Apple Documentation for Pages or Apple Documentation for TextEdit can provide more details. You can also find assistance for these apps and others by selecting Help in the menu bar while working or by searching for “document” on your Mac.