Setting up the Document panel in Umbraco is done by following the general guide for setting up a panel found in the panels section. From here click the "edit" button on the Document panel, this opens the editor for the panel.

The fields explained below:

• Title: The title for the document panel
• Title link: This makes the title a link to either an internal page or an external site
• Optional text: This is a text body for the document panel
• Select media folder: This is where you choose which documents to show in the panel, the documents must be in a folder, you cannot choose single documents, create a folder and put the documents you wish to show into that folder, then choose this folder here.
• Type: Here you can choose how the documents should be shown, the vertical is a classical list display:
   
  The horizontal looks like this:
  
• Documents count: Here you can choose how many documents you want to show, if the folder chosen has 15 documents and the number is set to 5, only the 5 first documents in the folder will be shown.
• See all link: Here you can add a link to either an internal page or an external site