Adobe alters footer text when saving as .pdf from a word doc

Hi, I need smart people. I'm hopefull users will know more than the support peeps.

When I do a "save as .pdf" from a Word.docx, Adobe literally changes the footer text to random garble. The docoment is therefore useless, as footers contain pertinent information for controlled docs and legal contracts (file namer, version, confidential, etc.) 

Adobe support said, and I quote:“in some case, the text can be altered by Adobe Sign” [WTF, this is a known issue!?]

Adobe support said the only fix is to move the doc from Word to Acrobat then to Adobe Sign in order to go through the Adobe Sign signature process! Say what? Adobe support (after multiple attempts) has zero fix, they just say that 'it's just the way it is, dunno why, but try using yet another adobe product to fix it, maybe, kinda.... we don't plan to fix it, we're just a document and document security company, so what's wrong with altering text eh? Dood..' (ok that wasn't a direct quote, but sums it up nicely) 

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Help!