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From the macrumors forums you can hold shift when you launch a program to launch it without the resume previous window functionality. Alternatively, for those who want some resume functionality and don't want to globally disable it, you can hold Shift when you launch an application to bypass resume and start that app fresh. If that doesnt work you can turn off the function globally by going to System Preferences - General and unticking 'Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps' (you can also disable the function on a per-app basis using the ).
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I tried orangebox's and Adam's instructions and linked instructions but it didn't do the trick, so I tried the following:. Opening up, in this case, Excel, close all documents and quit Excel. Open up the following folder: /Library/Saved Application State (you can also use the Cmd+ Shift+ G shortcut in Finder). There you can search for the application folder.
For me the folder is com.microsoft.Excel.savedState. Select it, use Cmd+ I for an information window on this folder and check the 'Locked' option. Now Excel can't change the savedState folder and will always open with a blank spreadsheet, which is at least faster for me.
When you drag a document on Excel (in the Dock for example) it will open it normally. Closing Excel and reopening still gets me a clean spreadsheet.
Holding the shift key down at login should prevent apps from relaunching for that login. If you want to permanently prevent apps from reopening, you can quit all apps then lock the com.apple.loginwindow.plist file found in /Library/Preferences/ByHost/ This plist keeps a list of open apps, and any apps that are in that list at logout will be launched again after login (assuming the checkbox is ticked to do so, as it always is by default). If you quit all apps, then lock that plist, it's list of apps will always be empty, so even when that checkbox is ticked, there will be no apps in the list to relaunch. Unlocking the plist will return it to normal behavior.