Opening applications and images

Everytime I open ANYTHING, whether it's microsoft word, or just picture in a library. It will open up anywhere from the past 3-5 documents/pictures I've looked at, or sometime just completely random ones. So incredibly frustrating. How do i fix this?

System Preferences->General->CHECK "Close windows when quitting an application."

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