Export EPS and WMF bugs in CS6

Hi, i'm working as senior graphic designer in a busy studio, and need help urgently!
We have been using Illustrator CS6 on PC to export vector shapes for logos used in MS Office as WMF. Logic behind this is it retains all vectors and transparency, very small file size for archiving, can be ungrouped in Office, and can be previewed by those without specialist software. Not great practice, but it works/worked.
However, we have recently seen increasing frequency of our files not exporting correctly. Curves will appear made of lots of smaller straight edges. Areas of complexity are exporting as rasterized shapes inside a group of other vectors.
We had some improvements by using EMF, better file format yes, and prints fine, but it looks terrible on screen in Office.
More recently, we are seeing similar issues in EMF too: curves broken into straight lines, areas of relative complexity being rasterized randomly. And now, gradients being rasterized, with tell-tale anti-aliasing around curves or diagonal lines, which of course have no transparency.
My suspicion is that we have corruption in Illustrator, and/or limited RAM. Is this normal?
Unfortunately we don't have admin access individually to try to reset Illustrator preferences without lengthy process of approvals from IT.
We would like to avoid having to uninstall and re-install the entire Adobe Suite due to same issue.
We have trawled the forums at Adobe and elsewhere with no luck. We are unlikely to be able to upgrade in the near future, or use 3rd party plug-ins, or get any help from in-house IT.
So, any assistance or workaround ideas are very welcome!!! Please help.
Thanks in advance to you all!

I do the same. Dislike Word, but hey, it sometimes pays the bills.
This is a logo exported from CS6 as an EMF, converted to a Word object and Edit Points selected.
So what you are describing isn't normal in my experience. I have seen some oddities with EMF exports at times, but nothing quite like you are describing. Can you share a sample file that fails in Word that doesn't belong to a client and upload it to dropbox.com or the like, then share a link?
Mike

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