Help adding Word documents on desktop MBA M1

[Andy_2341]

Hey everyone, I need some help with getting word documents on the desktop on my dad's MBA M1. He hasn't used a Mac since the 90's and I'm new to Mac myself, so I'm not really sure how to do it. On his Windows machine he has everything set up on his desktop in rows, with folders on the left hand side and the most used documents from those folders to the right of their respective folders. We want to replicate this. Currently everything is synced via the cloud, and the desktop arrangement can be seen in the file paths, but I can't seem to get the documents out of the cloud and on to the desktop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ruggy]

Well that's strange.
Usually, you can just drag and drop, or copy (cmd+c and paste cmd+v).
Or, you should see 'desktop' in the tree and you can copy and paste into there
If you open 'finder' then hold command and press 'n' then you get a second copy of finder so it's easier to drag and drop.
When on desktop then if you hold control and left click you'll get a menu and if you find 'sort' and choose 'none' things should stay exactly where you leave them.
I think that should do it