How do I prevent TextEdit from opening a new page?

I do a lot of editing of text docs and every time I open TextEdit it opens a new doc when I want to just open the doc I'm after. Then I have to close both of them.  This gets annoying when editing several docs.  Is there any way to turn off the new doc? I don't see that option in the menu or preferences.

Sorry, but there's no way to suppress that I can find. You might want to consider another text editor. I use TextWrangler, freeware from the people who make BBEdit, and it has a setting to do nothing on launch. Lots of additional capabilities as well.
Regards.

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