Thanks, Luc!
Yes; I’ve noticed the same thing. Disabling OneDrive - or even just disabling auto save, works fine as they are just normal files. You can do all the normal Mac things, like dragging from the window Title. You can only do this before opening the file; otherwise, once opened, it seems to not be able to find the original file, and will ask you for a location to save to.
The problem is that in my organisation, people frequently collaborate on files and so most of the time OneDrive needs to be on; and so quitting it just to make a link doesn’t make work in terms of the time taken.
I like the idea of using the Finder file and linking to that file. The problem is (and this is not at all a Hook problem) I don’t think that Word can even get you back to the underlying file once it’s opened.
If OneDrive is on, then I think Word just uses the file on the disk to figure out the online link and from then on uses that and really has no link back to your own drive… I think any edits possibly even go directly to the server and synced back from server onto Finder versus OneDrive.
One thing that occurred to me is that Word has a “share” link that links back to the online version of the file. It’s perhaps theoretically possible to use this link and figure out what the path to the file is. Not sure if that’s feasible to look at.
My workaround (similar to your guide) is to use DevonThink for now.
Tom