Windows 10: Changing from Work Account sign in, to a Local Sign In

At the moment, I have a laptop that is linked to a work Microsoft Account. I would like to change the login to the laptop to something simpler so the Microsoft password would be different than the laptop login password.I need to keep the same account that is already set up on the laptop as there are documents etc, currently stored on it, so I don't want to set up a new account for the laptop. How can I convert the current account, that is signed in to a work account, to a local account so that I can create a different password for logging in to the laptop.

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"Sign in with local account" button is not working.

Hi,

Failure to sign in to your local account can be related to how the user permission is configured on your device. To effectively assist you with your concern, we'd like to ask the following:

• Which Windows build version is running on your device? Type winver
  in the search box and press Enter to help you identify.
• Have you made any recent changes on your device prior to your concern?

As an initial step, we suggest that you create a new user and check if you'll be able to sign in to your local account from there. To create a new user, you can follow the steps provided on this

link.

We'll appreciate if you can send us an update.

 

Signing into Onenote app converts local account to microsoft account

Steps:

• Sign into a local account
• Open the OneNote app (tablet not desktop app)
• Sign in to this app with a Microsoft account

The local account is then converted into a Microsoft account with that identity.

This is wrong and unexpected behaviour as no indication is given that the sign in is for the whole of windows rather than just OneNote.

It is also hard to revert.

I am guessing that other apps may exhibit the same behaviour.

In fact I don't understand how an app (which is supposed to be sandboxed and secure) can change user account information.

 

Signing in as a local account.

I signed into my account with a Microsoft account to sync my settings and now I can't sign in as a local account again. Any suggestions?