Is there a way to add Word files with custom icons to the Dock?
Here's my admittedly inelegant work-around for this problem.


Change the icon of the Word file.
Create an alias. It will inherit the icon of the original.
Change the name of the alias. I added a space. This will break the icon inheritance. Now, when the custom icon is overwritten during the next save of the Word file, the icon of the altered alias survives.


bjbk suggested an application bundle. Thanks for that. That probably also works.