Mission Control - assign a document to a desktop?

I'm enjoying mission control and using it more and more.  I have stumbled across a feature that I can't tell if it is real or a bug.  I understand the process of assigning an application to a specific desktop or all.  However, I seem to have adhered a pages document to a desktop, while keeping other pages documents available in all desktops.
Situation - document1.pages is available exclusively in Desktop 1.  Documents 2.pages, 3.pages and 4.pages are available in all desktops.  So if I go to desktop 1 I see document1, 2, 3, 4.  If I go to desktop 2 I only see documents 2, 3 and 4.  Is this a glitch?  If not, how did I do it?  I work on multiple tasks throughout the day and would love to group documents and files into a single desktop and not have it based on the app.  IE I'd like to have files 1.numbers and 1.pages in Desktop 1 and files 2.numbers & 2.pages in Desktop 2.  This way I can focus on the task that the documents are associated with, not the app.
Let me know if this needs clarification.
Thanks in advance!
Dylan

This only seems to be a temporary state. If you quit the app you're back to square one - it will not relaunch in the same desktop so you have to go to mission control and reorganise again. In spaces on 10.6 one could assign apps to a certain space and they'd stay there.
It's the same with full screen apps. By default full screen apps get their own desktop but if you are in Safari (full screen) and open a new window it goes to a new desktop. This is extremly annoying.
Used to using command ~ to cycle through open app windows but this doesn't work when they're on separate desktops.

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