I don't know what environment you're working in, Ulodesk, but I'm wondering whether, in an ideal and impossible world, you'd be better off abandoning word processing and going for XML-based structured authoring … I have the impression many of your problems may essentially result from people tinkering with formatting and lay-out rather than providing content. I'm experimenting with this in a software/hardware development environment, and most of the developers quite like the idea.

"Ideal and impossible" includes, of course, needing people with the right perception of content, supportive management, time to get up and running, foresight, budget … but we can dream.