TextEdit app always opens with File Open dialog Every time I open my TextEdit app it starts with the File Open dialog open.

How do I stop this?
I find this behaviour irritating too. I believe Mountain Lion introduced a new Open dialog to provide the option to save a new file in iCloud so that it’s available from other iOS devices. You can disable this feature by going to System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive Options then untick TextEdit.app and any other apps that have a similar behaviour.