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1. Whether or not you get any noticeable performance advantage by putting your documents on the SSD depends on their size and how frequently you edit them: reading them in when you start editing and saving them at the end will be improved, but the editing itself will not be improved. In general, if they're only textual documents with few large images, you won't notice any improvement at all over keeping them on the HDD.
2. If your primary computer use is in text editing, responding to email and similar "office productivity" tasks, then it is very unlikely that you need more than 16GB of RAM.
Whether or not you get any noticeable performance improvement by adding RAM depends on how many large programs you run which involve large (multi-gigabyte) files -- databases, for example, video editing or 3D image generation. (All of these will take advantage of SSD speeds, too.) You can estimate if it'll help by running Task Manager and looking at how much RAM is in use when you're in the middle of your most demanding tasks. (E.g. with many open Web pages and documents, in the middle of video conferencing, etc) If most of the memory is in use (more than 12GB, for example) adding memory might help.
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