Windows 10: Switching Back to local acount

Hello I recently clicked a button on the x box app that signed my computer into a Microsoft account. I want to switch back to a local account but there is no link under your info in settings that says switch to local account or anything like that. I would really like to keep my files or use a different MS account for this computer can someone please help me.

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Can't Switch from Local Acount to Microsoft Account

Just because you signed out of Office doesn't mean Windows no longer has that MS account remembered and ready to be re-used. Go to Settings > Accounts > Email & accounts. You will see the MS account listed there. If you click on it you will be able to remove it. Add and Remove Accounts used by other apps in Windows 10

 

Can't Switch from Local Acount to Microsoft Account

There are no other accounts shown on that page. I tried adding a new user with the same name [myname]@gmail.com but that was rejected since another user on the PC already has that name - but Control Panel / User Accounts only shows two local accounts. PS C:\Users\David> Get-LocalUser | Where-Object { $_.Enabled -match "True"} | Select-Object Name,PrincipalSource >> Name PrincipalSource ---- --------------- Admin Local David Local

 

Can't Switch from Local Acount to Microsoft Account

I'm updating a friends laptop. He has a local account I want to change to his Microsoft account. His MS login name is [myname]@gmail.com and he also has a Google account with the same user name but a different password. He has MS Office 2016 which is logged in as his MS account above. I can't change the local account to a MS account since I get this message - [myname]@gmail.com is here already. Another user on this device uses this MS account, so you can't add it here. I am also unable to add a MS account from this screen in Settings:

I logged out of MS Office but get the same error. How to fix this without breaking the account?