Office 365 and OneDrive sync with W10 Local Account

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Hi all,

I have a W10 V21H2 PC that was set up with a Local account not tied to a Microsoft account.

I have installed an Office 365 subscription that is under my wife’s Microsoft account. This subscription allows up to 5 PC’s to install Office 365.

My wife’s has a separate PC (W10, 21H2) with the same Office 365 subscription, and her PC syncs with her OneDrive.

When I open any office document (Word, Excel, etc.) I see documents that have been updated on my  wife’s OneDrive account. I have disabled OneDrive (I don’t use it at all) on My PC and cleared everything I can find, but I still see these documents and can even open them.

How can I further disable the connection to my wife’s OneDrive account through Office?

Thanks in Advance!

Regards, Steve

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You can’t, because you’re using her Personal subscription:

Microsoft 365 Personal — For one person
Microsoft 365 Personal

A Family subscription is only $30 per year extra:

Microsoft 365 Family — For one to six people
Microsoft 365 Family

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Try signing out of onedrive. Disable it from startup. Open word go to options > Save set to save to computer by default. Then go to account privacy settings and disable everything. That has worked for m without issues.

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@b:  This is a Microsoft 365 Family Account for which we pay $99 per year.

@cyberSAR:  Thanks for the ideas.  I signed out of/disabled OneDrive. Office files are set to save to PC by default.  All local account privacy settings are turned off.  I still see the OneDrive files from the Open or Save menus. On the Settings App there is still a Manage OneDrive icon, that opens a folder that shows my wife’s files.  Any additional ideas?

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You might try reading through this thread to see if it helps.
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-onedrive-folder-backup-syncing-across-windows-11-devices.4321/#Two

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VVet69 wrote:

@b:  This is a Microsoft 365 Family Account for which we pay $99 per year.

Then you should be using your own Microsoft Account, not your wife’s:

If you’ve purchased Microsoft 365 Family, you can share your subscription benefits with up to five other people. You do this by sending each person an invitation or by adding them to your Microsoft family. After each person accepts the invitation, they can sign in (using their own Microsoft account) to http://www.office.com to install Office on their devices and access their own 1 TB of OneDrive storage.

Share your Microsoft 365 Family subscription

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