Place drawing made in Illustrator into word while maintaining press quality image

I write user manuals for a living and am currently working in a situation where I am provided the following software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat X Pro and MS Word.
I usually take AutoCAD (dwg or dxf) files and open them in illustrator and then manipulate them for their desired purpose. Then I need to place them in the approprate MS Word document.The problem is that no matter what format I choose when exporting from Illustrator they always look like junk in the Word document, PDF and printed versions. What is the best way to get a high quality line drawing into MS Word?
We used to have MS Visio and that created drawings that were a million times sharper than what I am able to produce now.
What are my options folks??
Thanks
-Chris

Chris,
Attached are two screen shots. ats1_input_pnl.jpg is from inside Illy. Doc1.jpg is from inside a PDF that had the section of instrument panel imported to Word.
Export from Illy as TIF, RGB (regardless of your drawing color space) and at 300 dpi.
It's what I do and both inside Word and the PDF, tis pretty much the same as in Illy.
Take care, Mike
ats1_input_pnl.jpg
Doc1.jpg

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