There are two types of Office 2013 installations. That Update button in Account page is available only to Click and Run installs of Office 2013, by default. You don’t have it, most likely because you’re using the setup / msi version of Office installer, just like me. To get the update settings, you need to install Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool, and then you can access those features. The thing is that setup / msi installs are for IT admins, thus the more complicated setup of the msi installer and additional tools, and it’s not for home users, for whom click and run is better suited.

Paul, might I suggest a little google work? Usually, if one doesn’t understand something, one should look it up before giving it large. the very abridged version of this is any office which isn’t ‘Office 2013 Standard’ or ‘Office 2013 Professional’ is click to run. ‘Office 2013 Standard’ and ‘Office 2013 Professional’ are VLK versions and are MSI based. thus ‘MSI installations does (sic) not have the update option the blog post talks about’

I don’t understand what you mean by “click-to-run installations”. Also don’t get “Msi installtions does not have the update option…”

We are talking about an installed product here are we not? Not one we are trying to install but one that has been installed. This means I don’t get what you are trying to say.

For me Microsoft office was installed from a download from Microsoft and the valid key was entered. There has never been an option to update from within Office for me in any version and from the previous posts I’m assuming that this is because auto update is enabled through Windows Update.

However… Just to complicate this I’ve noticed that since Windows 7 (and Windows 8.1) are frustratingly forcing me to select Windows Update options at every logon I can now access the update options from within Word. But I’ve also replaced the 32bit version that was installed with the 64bit version so wondering if that was part of it.

NOTE: Action centre reports Windows Updates are set to never install and every time I change it to automatic and it keeps changing back to never. Don’t know why…