Just yesterday, we found a fix that works! Use the steps in the link below to "roll back" to an earlier version.

As per https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1999368-excel-instantly-crashes-upon-opening-a-certain-worksheet we can roll back to the previous version of Office 2016.

Their thread shows a pushd command and version update comman to run at the ADMINISTRATOR LEVEL command prompt:
pushd %programfiles%\common files\microsoft shared\clicktorun
officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.7967.2161