Hi Donna
For basic video editing tasks, Windows Movie Maker is handy enough - that should be installed on Windows 8.1
On your Start screen, in the Search box, type Movie Maker to see if that is already installed
If not, you can get that form the links below:
English (United Kingdom)
http://web.archive.org/web/20160423192125/http:...
English (United States)
http://web.archive.org/web/20170112124505/http:...
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