This is NOT good and I don't understand the issue...
I keep my movie library in an Excel sheet to where I click a title and it launches in my default media player for video. While using Office 2007 I would just create a desktop shortcut to the Excel sheet then pin it to the taskbar. It would not actually pin the shortcut but would attach it as pinned to the Excel taskbar icon. I would then just right click on the taskbar icon and select the pinned menu sheet.
I have since installed Office 365, 2016 version, and the same procedure worked just fine while Office 2007 was still installed. I just removed Office 2007 and the access to the menu sheet is broken. While I can still pin the sheet to the Excel 365 taskbar icon it will only open a blank sheet. I can then go to the file tab and open the menu sheet under 'recent files' and it works fine. While Excel 2007 was still installed I would right click on the 2007 taskbar and select. It would open in Excel 365 but did work.
I have even tried creating a new shortcut to the file after removing Office 2007 and then pinning, same result. Just in case I even added the file to my OneDrive folder and created and pinned from there; same result. I even tried creating a new Excel file and it had the same result.
I believe this to be a registry issue such as Patty solved ages ago with previous versions of Office.Of course I could always re-install Excel 2007 and I'm sure all would be fine... probably.
I could also do an image restore that I made before removing 2007 and remove one component at a time.
This SEEMS to be the exact same issue that Patty solved with the registry hack for an earlier version of Office. I THINK that the core issue then and now is the install of the newer version of Office before removing the older version. I think that I may go ahead and remove 365 and do another install to see what happens.While this is not a huge issue it is an issue for me. Any insight would be appreciated.