Most platforms have applications to synchronize your documents on OneDrive with versions on your local device. With OneDrive, you can share files for collaboration in real time with the other Office applications. It’s a system which needs work to remove annoying glitches. < Back to Microsoft 365 Resources Microsoft OneDrive allows you to securely store your files in a single place thats accessible from multiple platforms and devices. 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. At worst, save the document to a new name on OneDrive and share with others.That might be enough to make Office forget it’s problem. Sometimes even that isn’t enough to stop these persistent sign in messages. 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. UPLOAD FAILED: You are required to sign in to upload your changes to this location
Share them with others and work together at the same time. Save documents, workbooks, and presentations online, in OneDrive.
Then, sign in with the account you want to use. Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. To open a different personal account, tap the Me icon in the upper left of the screen, tap the account you want to sign out of, and then tap Sign Out of This Account. You can add only one personal account to the OneDrive app. Can’t Sign-inĪ very common problem is opening a document saved on OneDrive, DropBox etc and seeing this. Sign in to OneDrive in iOS - Office Support. Most commonly with documents saved to OneDrive but also Dropbox or other cloud storage. These bugs can happen in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote.
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.