I just installed Office 2016 last week (I shouldn't have - I should have stuck with 2013 or 2010) and now when I go to open an Access file, I have to open Excel first and than browse to the file and open it. Before Office 2016, I could just right click on the file and use Open With... and set Excel as my default program to open Access files.

I have even browsed to the Excel exe file from Open With... (in Program Files (x86)>Microsoft Office>root>Office16>Excel) and tried to select it as the default program and it won't even select it (Word is in the list of programs to open the Access file but not Excel).

Is there a new way to do this with office 16? I am running Win 2007.

Has anyone else experienced this?