Word Opening Dozens of Docs at Once

When I opened Word (Office 2008) on my macbook pro this morning, suddenly dozens of documents began to open rapidly in succession. The documents continued to open in rapid succession--I don't when or if it would have stopped. I used "force quit" to stop it. I tried shutting down a couple of times but that didn't change anything. This happened whether I clicked on Word icon, or actually tried to open an existing document. Can anybody help?

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Were the documents that were opening up ones you had previously opened yourself? I've found that Word and Preview tend to re-open all documents that were previously opened when you quit the application. You have to ensure to close out each document before quitting the application..

Sometimes when I'm reading through documents I tend to open up a bunch of them and just hit CMD+q to quit and then I'll open an image or another PDF and boom, every single PDF from my previous session is loaded as well..

If there is a quicker way to quit Preview/Word and have it close out all of the opened windows/documents, I'm all ears..short of doing it manually..

Thanks for the reply Raz0rEdge. I pretty much close any documents I'm working on before shutting down or moving on to something else. When I hit Word this morning, it pretty much started opening nearly every document I had seen or touched within the past few weeks. Well, that's as much as I could tell in the two dozen or so documents I would let open before force quitting.

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Raz0rEdge said:

I've found that Word and Preview tend to re-open all documents that were previously opened when you quit the application.

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You must have set that (or I somehow unknowingly disabled this) - I've never seen that in my life with the Mac version of Office. In fact, I'm pretty sure I would have taken a hammer to Office by now if it did that.

If you hold down shift when you open Word, does this happen? Sure sounds like restore is working its magic here.

If there is a quicker way to quit Preview/Word and have it close out all of the opened windows/documents, I'm all ears..short of doing it manually

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I saw another topic on this the other day, but can't remember where. The solution, in Preview anyway, was to go into Preview's Preferences, where there was an option to stop this happening. Something about opening previous windows or suchlike.