DocuGuard Guides
Guidance and Advice to support your business
Here at DocuGuard, you will find an ever expanding library of guides to help you take control of your documentation and, in turn, help to push your business into growth and success.
With a focus on correct registry and formatting, we can help ensure you are compliant and safe through the medium of documentation.
A Beginners Guide
Summary
Document Control: A Beginners Guide is the jewel in the DocuGuard crown. It is this document from which our whole vision is founded upon. As far as the 6 pillars is our philosophy, this guide is our bible.
With 8 Chapters overflowing with information, this document really is a one stop shop in document control.
The 8 chapters to guide you are as follows:
- Foreword - Written by our CEO with years of knowledge as a Technical Author.
- Necessities as a Document Controller - Outlines what we believe you need before you begin your adventure into documentation.
- Starting Point - The beginnings of starting a document register, and understanding identifying your documents (pillar 1) both in their title and their content.
- The Content - A look at how concise (pillar 2) and standardised content creation can ensure your documents achieve their objectives.
- Approval and Distribution - How to have your documents verified (pillar 3) and then distributed (pillar 4) efficiently.
- Storage - How to store your documents efficiently (pillar 5) and how to keep track of revision (pillar 6).
- Summary - A brief overview of the points made throughout the document.
- Still need help? - Where to find more help on the subject.
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With Examples
We have also released a supplementary version of this guide that includes a chronologically running step by step guide on how to form a document registry.
This version also comes with an additional 9th chapter:
9. Registry - Summarises the work carried out throughout the document and offers tips and guides on how to improve your great foundation.