Office 365 Windows apps not upgrading to latest

 If you have ever come across the situation when your colleagues have features or annoyances in Office 365 desktop applications that your Outlook / Excel does not have?
And no matter how many times you manually initiate Office Update under File / (Office) Account / Update Options / Update Now nothing new comes?

We do a lot of collaborative editing of tracking lists in Excel where private, temporary Sheet Views of Data Filtering and Sorting come very handy so that one does not alter the filter criteria for the other editing the same list.

I did not have this option since I could not upgrade further than the (20)20-02(Feb) version of the apps:

You can also see the culprit: after much research, uninstall-reinstall that did not help I figured that the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel is not delivering the updates (yet).

If you do not want to wait you have to change the Office Update Channel: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/change-update-channels however the enterprise methods linked in this article did not work for me.

Thus I have researched some more and changed my update channel manually through changing my registry: https://www.solver.com/switching-office-365-monthly-update-channel however the changes described in this article also were not enough for me.

So what I did:

1. start regedit
2. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration
3. Change CDNBaseURL to http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/492350f6-3a01-4f97-b9c0-c7c6ddf67d60
4. Change AudienceId to 492350f6-3a01-4f97-b9c0-c7c6ddf67d60
5. Change UpdateChannel to http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/492350f6-3a01-4f97-b9c0-c7c6ddf67d60
6. Change UpdateChannelChanged to True
7. Start Excel (or any other Office application)
8. Initiate File / (Office) Account / Update Options / Update Now
9. Exit Excel and wait for the updates to download and install.
10. Open Excel: File / Account now I am on version (20)20-10(Oct):

Same with Word:

Office Update Channel changed to Current!

I also did some restarts in between, #6 and #7 above. You should do it too, if the above steps alone do not work for you straight away.