MS Office applications (Word, Excel) cannot work with file links on NTFS?

Question

NTFS

In Win7 64, I create a file on an NTFS partition within one logical drive and, in another directory, a symbolic (or hard) link to it - through FarManager (Alt-F6) or the LinkShellExtension utility.
If we have a symbolic link to the file, then when editing the original, the symlink shows the same change (which is logical), but when we try to save, say, in Word 2010, it swears at a file access error. Or save as a new file. At the same time, the file properties (via Explorer) indicate that this is a link to the file.
If the link is hard - it's worth editing the file with the same Word 2010, it "breaks away" from the original, i.e. changes regardless of the original entity. Again we get a gap - two or more new files.
How to be? It turns out that in read-only mode, symlinks work fine, as in * nix systems (when we edit only the source file). But, as soon as you start working exactly in the position of a sym- or hard-link with some Office application, that's it, the connection is lost. Those. these applications don't know about symlinks?
[added]: creating links with the standard mklink command leads to the same unfortunate result

Answer 1

symbolic (or hard) link

FAR. ALT+F6. Symbolic link (file). Works synchronously. No "(or tough)"!