Microsoft AutoUpdate keeps reporting the need to upgrade

I am on Office 2011 v14.4.3 (OS10.9.3), and Microsoft AutoUpdate keeps reporting I should upgrade to 14.4.3.  Is there somewhere an invisible file to remove?  Or how do I fix this?
I posted this on the MS forum without result.  Now hoping somebody here has an idea.

If the Auto-Update process is failing another approach would be to manually download the (same) update and run it manually. For 14.4.3 go to
Download Now!
You could also try running it from a different clean/empty admin account. If all this still fails then I would agree that removing the entire Office2011 and reinstalling would be best. At least you will not need to run each individual update, just the latest.
Sadly there is no official Office2011 uninstaller. Some people have written scripts to do this.
http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/install/remove-office/
http://karlkeppner.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/mac-script-to-completely-remove-ms-o ffice-from-mac-os-x-lion/
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Office-2011-Uninstall-Tool.shtml
https://gist.github.com/ssbarnea/1048927
https://gist.github.com/RobFreiburger/1028686

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