Thanks for the information.

Did the "repair" option (or any other option) work for anyone running on a recently (2018) purchased PC with pre-installed Office 2016 H&B running on Windows 10 Pro ??? Because this did not work for me.

Btw - after speaking with Dwaine, it appears the real "resolution" for him was after he installed an older Office 2013 product in addition to the pre-installed Office 2016. Now Excel Direct launches Excel 2013, while the Office 2016 products continue to work otherwise.

While that might be a viable workaround in many cases, can Softrak please indicate if you feel that this "pre-installed Office 2016" Excel Direct Issue is something you think will be resolved and in what sort of time frame ?

Regards, Pete

This "issue" is not being researched at the moment.
A support ticket was opened with Microsoft but cancelled when it was reported "A repair of the office Application fixed the issue and the missing registry entries were found afterwards."

We will start looking into this once again but do not expect a resolution anytime soon.