Preview Help

Hello everyone! I would like to know if anyone knows how to fix this problem. I have multiple PDF's in a folder and I just want one PDF to open, but it seems that preview like to open all PDF's. As I recall Preview in Snow Leopard never did this. If anyone has a solution on how to get Preview to open one PDF at a time that would be greatly appreciated.
Thank again
MacJack101

Hold down the shift key and launch Preview by clicking its icon in the Dock. That will stop it from re-opening the other files.

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    Subject: Re: cell background colors are not showing in preview - help? - DW4 
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