Hey Jc,

It switched to the new version within the last couple of months for me.

When you uncheck “use latest version” you must reload googledocs. Or even close all of its tabs, just to make sure. That’s what I did. And then next doc I made was variable-width, thank goodness. All your docs will keep the formatting they were created with — that’s why I had to copy and paste old fixed-width stuff into new variable-width docs.

The older interface allows you to choose fixed-width under the view menu. I suppose it’s possible that you’ve got that option checked by default. The new version has no such options under the view menu. You’re forced to use fixed-width unless you uncheck that option in the settings menu as described.

I wonder which version Google Docs uses if you uncheck that “use latest version” option. I’ve just tried doing that, but I didn’t see any difference…