

It’s a system which needs work to remove annoying glitches. That’s a PITA and should not be necessary but sometimes it’s the only way out of Office’s problem.īoth Office and OneDrive are Microsoft products, but they don’t always work happily together.

You might need to click the Show hidden icons arrow next to the notification area to see the OneDrive icon.
#ONEDRIVE SIGN IN WINDOWS#
Sometimes even that isn’t enough to stop these persistent sign in messages. I cant see any OneDrive icons Windows On a PC, you should see a white or blue OneDrive cloud icon in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar. The error message disappears and the message ‘Saved’ shows up next to the document title (depending on your version of Office). If you’re lucky, this second sign in attempt will work properly. In our experience, this link really will open a sign in dialog. To fix this, please sign in again.Ĭlick on the Sign in link.

You should see a warning symbol, click on the account to reveal the error.ĪCCOUNT ERROR, Sorry we can’t get to your account right now. The next thing to try, go to the Microsoft account area at top right of the title bar. Click and the yellow warning bar only disappears for a few moments. Too often, the Sign In button does nothing. Maybe you’ll be lucky, click the Sign In button and you can login to your Microsoft / DropBox account and keep working. The document has been opened from a locally stored copy but Office can’t save to the cloud. In recent Office for Windows releases you’ll see ‘Upload Failed’ next to the document title. Click the down arrow to the right of 'OneDrive Cached Credential' - Choose Edit, and enter your OneDrive (Microsoft Account) Username/Password. UPLOAD FAILED: You are required to sign in to upload your changes to this location Can’t Sign-inĪ very common problem is opening a document saved on OneDrive, DropBox etc and seeing this. Most commonly with documents saved to OneDrive but also Dropbox or other cloud storage. These bugs can happen in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote.
#ONEDRIVE SIGN IN HOW TO#
Here’s how to deal with some of those persistent bugs. Ever since Microsoft added shared, collaborative documents via OneDrive, they’ve had problems with saving and sign-in.
