I've found this earlier question, with some suggestions for turning Resume Previous Windows off at the OS level, or with an app-specific Apple script. This always takes me by surprise because it's so different to usual application behaviour that I'm used to.īecause it's usually someone else's document I'm working from (and because it's usually first thing in the morning, and I'm really not a morning person.), I usually end up spending minutes in mild confusion looking for the content I need to work from in the wrong document, wondering why the document I just opened looks so different to how I was expecting it to look, before realising this isn't actually the document I just opened and/or remembering that Office for Mac does this. The document I asked for is now buried somewhere under whatever I was working on when I last closed Word or Excel. then, documents from my previous session open on top of the document I chose to open. The document and the application opens.So, I find the document on the shared server, and open it. I need to work from a Word or Excel (for Mac, Office 2011) document.
Here's an irritation that annoys me almost every working day:
