Excel 2016 - New Sessions do no share Personal.xlsb

[DanielleExcel]

Hi
We switched to MS Office 2016 a few months ago and I've noticed Excel opens each file in an individual session instead of multiple files in one session. No big deal except Window Explorer is the easiest way for me to open files and when a file is opened this way, it does not share the personal.xlsb macro file. If a file is opened through Excel, there is no problem. Because of the structure of our folder system, it's a bit too cumbersome to navigate through them all to open files through Excel.
It's actually rather annoying as every time I open a file through my normal process, it has to be closed and then re-opened via Excel when the system tells me that my personal.xlsb is locked for editing...by me.
Is there some way to eliminate this problem?

Thanks
Danielle

 

[SpillerBD]

Pin the popular folders and/or files in Excel.
Not sure why separate sessions are opening when launching/opening Excel files from Windows Explorer. That is not my experience. Excel 2016 ProPlus

I didn't see any other links with like problems except for some old items like
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...of-excel/8683864f-de1b-45ee-a519-c23a0e3a314b
Maybe its an issue with the OS/File Association?