But see how you get on and do come back if you have any further problems or, indeed, if you discover some great solution to the never ending pain of HTML emails in Outlook. Right, no worries. I think I've got it. I still get a duplicate content error when I try to post my HTML in it's fixed version. So I'll just post a link like before. A lot of changes based on obscure references elsewhere but a couple of highlights are: 1) I had to replace my vertical menu (unordered list) and it's border styling with spans separated by hr tags. This allowed me to avoid padding and get the horizontal line dividers I wanted. 2) After revising my HTML, I loaded it into Thunderbird via the Stationery add-on, sent the email to myself and opened it up in Outlook 2010. This really helped me avoid some of the formatting nightmares (like image resizing) that I had when I used the usual methods for getting HTML into Outlook. Then I just saved out an OFT and I think I'm good. A couple of points, basically you should not use outlook (which uses word as a html rendering engine therefore is absolutely useless for creation purposes as it will alter all your code and do as it pleases) and barely manages rendering for recieved html emails. I would always recommend setting up a free mailchimp account, and importing your list into there. Also a big advantage is you can