Why do Preview and other programs always open the most recently opened documents?

This is a minor issue but it bugs me a lot because I never have more windows/documents up than necessary. Every time I open a PDF in Preview, it also opens up all the documents that were up when I quit Preview before. All the Office programs do the same thing. I've searched high and low in the individual program preferences, and nothing works--for example, unchecking "Track recently opened documents" doesn't help for PowerPoint, and I don't even see a similar setting for Preview. Since it's a pan-program problem, I looked in the general System Prefs and I tried unchecking "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." Didn't help. I even re-started. Didn't help (the "Restore windows..." box is still unchecked though, it didn't re-check it). What can I do to stop this silly setting???
Thanks!

That looks like it would work...for someone who knows how to do it! That is way over my head. I found this article in another thread and it looks do-able for someone as tech-unsavvy as me, except that I can't find the "Saved Application State" folder that they talk about, not even if I search using Spotlight or Alfred. Sigh. Any other ideas, or am I doomed if I can't write script?

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