Opening Files in Pages, Preview, Numbers, etc.

How do prevent these apps from opening up several documents at once?  I double click on a file to open it and suddenly my desktop is full of windows of files that I've used previously . . . I would like to only open files I intend to open.

It is one of the 250 new features of the World's Most Advanced Operating System called Resume.
You can try this first...
Before choosing Restart, Sleep or Shutdown there is a checkbox you can uncheck to prevent the apps from launching.
Also in System Preferences > General there is a hard-to-find checkbox under "Number of recent items you can turn off.
In addition there is a hard-to-find check box in System Preferences >
System Preferences > General
UN chekmark "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
Restart.
Also, holding the shift key when launching should supress resume.
If that doesn't do it... go to Terminal
If you want to turn it off on a per app basis, (Pages is by example, replace Pages with the name of the app)
Launch Terminal and copy/paste this at the prompt...
defaults write com.apple.Pages NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
Press return.
To turn off Resume globally...
chflags uchg ~/Library/"Saved Application State"
Press return
The reverse of the first one is to replace false with true.
The reverse of the second one is
chflags nouchg ~/Library/"Saved Application State"

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