My wonderful son set up my laptop with a desktop view, The tiles are still there I have 8.1 operating system if I want them but otherwise it's the same as my old machine.
Word and excel have a different format for editing printing etc. from the ribbon and that takes some getting used to, I just play around with it.
I also went on a free night school course which helped a great deal.
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