How to remove extra Microsoft Accounts
Problem
- Office applications keep logging into the wrong account
- Office applications keep asking you to fix
- There may be more
Steps
- sign out of office apps by clicking the profile in the top right then clicking sign out
- remove work or school accounts in windows account settings if possible
- remove any Microsoft credentials in the credential manager
- deleted the Identity folder from the following path in the registry editor: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common
- Once those steps are completed try to sign into office again through Word or Excel