Updating apps after a change in Apple ID

This question may well be addressed elsewhere, but it may help to have it here with a solution.
I recently changed the email of my Apple ID. The change caused several problems and one with App store.
Updating apps (e.g. Keynote) bought before the change, I found that the Apple ID proposed when I did so was the old one, which was, of course, no longer valid. It's greyed out in the window so you can't change it.
I began to think I wasn't going to be able to update at all. But then I found a post related to something else but which helped out here.
So the solution is to first trash the application and then click on "Buy" in the App store. You then get a window in which you can type the right Apple ID and connect to the store. You reclick "Buy" and because the app figures in the list you bought previously, the App store graciously lets you download the updated app for free. 

OK I think I have the answer
Work, in order to give me a functioning machine, installs Apple apps using its own Apple ID. It means they can write an image to my disk instead of painstakingly installing a box o' apps. makes perfect sense.
I then add my own preferred apps, and those I bought myself through the apple store using MY Apple ID.
Thus I can update "My" apps but can't update the apps installed by our IT department, because the system wants the appleID from the installer/disk image they were installed from.
Thus I can upgrade to Yosemite but not install the related apps like pages/Keynote, etc. since it asks for the IT department's Apple ID and not mine, regardless of the apple ID I have entered in the System prefs.
This happens with the following Apple apps::
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
iMovie
iPhoto
So: here's my solution.
After you have the entire system updated etc, and you have isolated the apps that won't update for this specific reason, delete one of those apps, install it from scratch from the apple store, wait for it to download and install, open it once to make sure it works, then move to the next one. Painstaking I know but it worked...

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