Windows 10: How to unlink Microsoft Office credentials from Windows 11 local account

I use Microsoft Office for the small business I own. I do a lot of my office work from home, but my home PC is my machine, not a work machine, and it I log in to that machine with a local windows account. I have signed into Word/Office with my office login, and somehow it has linked that login to Windows itself and Windows Search. See screenshot. How do I sign of of this account on Windows but continue to be signed into the account for Word and Excel?

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Local Account password changed to Online Account Password

Hi,

I suggest you to follow the steps on how to switch from Microsoft account to Local account:

• Click on search in taskbar and type account.
• Click on Accounts.
• Now, under Your account, click on Sign in with Local account instead.
• Enter your Microsoft account password for confirmation and then follow the screen instruction.
• Enter User name credentials for your the Local account and click OK.
• Now, login to Local account.

Hope it helps.

 

How do I unlink my Microsoft Account from Local Accunt?

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

I would suggest you to follow the methods given below and check.

• What do you mean when you say "How do I unlink my Microsoft account from Local account in Windows 10?
  " ?

Microsoft account and local account are two different things.

I would suggest you to create another local account and check.

• Press windows key + X key and select Control panel.
• In Control panel select User Account.
• In user Account Click on Manage another account.
• Click on Add a new user in PC settings.
• Click Add someone else to this PC.
• Click on The person I want add doesn't have an email address.

Hope this helps, if you need further assistance on Windows let us know we will be glad to help.

 

Clear cached Microsoft Live account credentials in Office apps

Briefly: After logging out of all my Microsoft accounts in OneNote I was still able to open/browse OneDrive files, private to those accounts, from the recently used list.

While using OneNote 2016 (Office 365 ProPlus, Windows 10 1803) at work, logged in with my work LiveID, I needed temporary access to my personal OneNote notebook, so within OneNote I logged into my other account, retrieved the information, and closed the notebook. Later I noticed that I could open my personal notebook and browse my OneDrive files from the recently used files menu without a password prompt. I tried the following to clear my cached credentials to no avail:

• OneNote 2016 Account settings - Sign out of my personal account, switch to my work account, verify that "Switch account" does not show my personal account. Restart Windows. Also signed out of work account.
  
• My Office (app) - Search the My account page for options to log out of my personal account.
  
• Log into https://onedrive.live.com and verify none of my files/folders are shared.
  
• Log into https://account.microsoft.com and verify my computer is not listed under "Devices"
  
• Repair - Repair Office from Windows Control Panel [suggested by the IT department] - I tried both "normal" and "online" repair, which reinstalled Office.
  
• Windows Credential Manager - From this application I deleted all credentials starting with "MicrosoftOffice" and "OneDrive Cached Credential".
  
• An SU post mentions Microsoft Live ID Sign-in Assistant, which sounds great, but is apparently not available on desktop Windows(?)