Local vs. Microsoft Account Question - Windows 11 Home

I'm currently using a Local Account but would like to encrypt my OS drive in Windows 11. When I toggle device encryption it says I'm required to log in using my Microsoft Account (under Accounts). Will this change my Local Account to Microsoft Account? If so, will I still be able to change back to Local Account later or is it permanent and required for device encryption? Thank you.

Well...I'll try on my laptop...but on my desktop the answers are yes and yes. The minute I used the link to sign into my Microsoft Account and it automatically changed my Local Account to a Microsoft Account. There was a link to go back to being a Local Account...except...you can't have the same name as the Microsoft Account (mine is first and last name). I had to call it something else and it worked. I was then able to use netplwiz to restore original account and display name. Also, I had to re-do Microsoft Hello and use the /resetnavpane command to get it to work again. Hopefully everything is back to normal now.

It seems to have worked on laptop as well...with less issues actually. After enabling device encryption I had to change to a Microsoft account to get rid of a warning message and, likely, to enable the passcode to be saved to my account. I changed it back to a local account and restored the original account name. So far so good. Now the wait for they drive to completely encrypt while I use it.