Document control Word/Excel
After TRYING to control documents for many years, I have found that you don't always want to protect people from changing them as they NEED them to be but from people changing them by ACCIDENT. I don't know about everyone else, but we seem to have a lack of understanding in the basics of Word & Excel. (Yes it has been identified as a training issue)
People ACCIDENTALLY delete things, copy/paste into forms that are not intended for that use, and even totally change the format just because that's how they like it. Standardization in some things is good.........like with the majority of our documents.
Before I creat a form for someone, I ask them what they need it for, who uses it, how it will be used (e-mail, fill-in, print, handwrite on it, etc.) Then when the approval request goes out, they should be checking with the people who use it and ensure that they like/understand it's use before it is implemented.
Adobe is wonderful for most things but some forms we still can't get out of it what we need.