Pages opens multiple documents

Since installing Lion, I have had issues with iWork '09 applications (notably Pages and Keynote) opening both the file that I originally wanted to open and the last file that I worked on in that application. Is there a way to stop it from doing that and just opening the file that I clicked on?

All the apps supposed to disable SaveState aka Resume are based on this code :
--{code}
set the_prefs to "com.apple.iWork.Pages"
try
do shell script "defaults write " & a_pref & " NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false"
end try
--{code}
Alas, as I already wrote, they are inefficient on a French system.
I would be interested to know how they behave on other localized systems.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 30 janvier 2011 15:38:16
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