Cant go back to my live account on my W8.1 laptop

Since some time I'm having a yellow rectangle when I work with office documents saying I need to sign in again. When I do the rectangle still remains.
Yesterday I had difficulty reaching my on-line files of onedrive while their names seemed to have changed into strange combinations of numbers and letters.
I assumed I had an account issue.
I disconnected my computer from the live account and signed in with the local account with the intention to go back to the live account.
Now I'm trying to switch back to my Microsoft account and after I enter the local account's password and click "next", the window is stuck where it shows "Switch to a Microsoft account on this PC" ... "Please wait" and the rotating
dots next to it (also stuck)! I cannot do a refresh either because when I search from the charms "refresh" and the results come out, I cannot click on the results...
Please help with this situation since it is becoming frustrating.
Thanks

Hi,
Regarding current information, please first let me know if there is any error message you received and any error in Event log related to this issue. Post back for our research.
Then, I suggest you find the profile folder for the Microsoft account under C:\users and delete it, try to connect it again.
If it doesn't work, consider if related service and system files were corrupted:
Please run SFC /scan command as admin to scan system files.
Also, we can try to run a system restore back to the point when the system work fine to see if your issue can be fixed.
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