How to stop Microsoft Office from reopening old irrelevant documents automatically?

Ever since upgrading to Mavericks, whenever I open Microsoft Word or Excel, old irrelevant documents (apparently the ones that happened to be open at the time I upgraded) automatically open. I'm using Office 2011 v14.4.3. I saw a number of posts about this nuisance behavior under Lion, but it didn’t happen to me until Mavericks, and the fixes discussed on those posts don't seem to apply to Mavericks.
Note that in System Preferences I have the "Close windows when quitting an application" box checked. I've also cleared the Recent Documents lists in Excel and Word, to no avail.
To keep seeing the same Office documents from years ago every time I open an Office application, and having to close them manually each time, is a serious nuisance!
Is there a fix???

I am having the same problem. Whenever I re-open Word after restarting my computer, all of yesterday's documents reopen.
I have the "close windows when quitting an application" box (System Preferences -> General) checked - it has always been checked, and does not solve this problem.
It's intensely frustrating to wait for Word to open ten documents and then re-close them all before being able to work.

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