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My html email newsletter design doesn't render properly in Outlook 2007. There is a white horizontal gap towards the bottom which breaks borders and backgrounds. I've had this happen before and have no idea how to work around it. Any suggestions? I've posted the source here. It renders just fine except in Outlook 2007 (Word 2007).

By the way, you can preview the problem without Outlook, by opening the source with Word 2007.

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I currently have exactly the same problem, as far as i'm aware this is something to do with Outlook 2007 using Word 2007 as a rendering engine. Because of this, Outlook 2007 puts (what are effectively) page breaks throughout your email (at certain intervals).

I may be completely wrong, but this is how I see it...

Any answers would be rather good!

Neurofluxation
Yes, I've experienced this as well, Outlook seems to be adding page breaks to avoid chopping an image in half. Which of course is a silly thing to do for an e-mail unless you're trying to print.
EfficionDave
It's because of the Word rendering engine - it thinks it's still in Word... Silly Microsoft...again...
Neurofluxation
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The answer seems to be that these bugs are related to the size/length of the email and can't be eliminated, though sometimes the effect can be mitigated by editing the content to add additional horizontal spacing or by increasing the line-height attribute of some of the text that precedes the breaks.

jalperin