Syncing issues with 8.1

I'm new to 8.1 and just setting up my PC. I really like the idea that all PC docs and folders will sync automatically to sky drive but this is failing to happen. I'm a little confused because I thought this happened intuitively with this OS. I have this option turned on in sync settings. When looking into this I can see that there should be an option to right click on the sky notification icon also to change settings but no such icon exists, hidden or otherwise. I've also played about on my sky drive to change settings to off-line mode but without success. Basically, any edit to my docs doesn't update to sky drive automatically. Any help much appreciated.