This document provides instructions for creating certificates using mail merge in Microsoft Word: 1. Create a recipient list in Excel with the relevant information like names and save it to your computer. 2. In Word, open the mail merge wizard and select "Letters" as the document type. Select the existing Excel recipient list as the data source. 3. Insert mailing fields like name into the certificate template and preview the resulting merged certificates. 4. Make any necessary formatting adjustments and then either edit individual certificates into new documents or directly print the results.