Hello there - I'm new to this forum and a fairly new mac user. Recently (today) I tried to open a word doc (for mac) on my MAC PRO laptop. It opened EVERY DOC I had on my desktop.
I unistalled and reinstalled word for mac 2011. Still does it. At least it doesn't do that for the excel anymore.
How did you try to open the document? Via the drop down menu in Word's toolbar or just double-clicking on the document's desktop icon? Or does it happen both ways? If not, try the other way.
I'm also running Word for Mac 2011 and have never seen that happen (unless I purposely selected/highlighted a number of documents so that they would all open at once).