Preventing Office 2019 apps from launcing in Internet Explorer

I just installed Office 2019 PRO.

When I launch the Office 2019 icon that shows all the office apps and choose one (say Word), select new blank doc to open, it starts in Internet Explorer.

If I go to the Win10 Start button and choose Word, it launches as a standalone app and not running within IE.

I had this same issue on another computer and can't remember what I did to prevent launching in IE.

Anyone know how to turn off the Office 2019 app launches from starting in IE?

Update: Now Word only opens as a standalone app, doesn't launch as a web app in IE. So something changed that I'm not aware of, but this is how I want it to launch as no a web app. Excels still launches a web app.

Thus there must be a way to control the office apps not to launch as a web app in IE.