I've been told using tables is the best way to send emails although it's been twice as difficult. I have setup the email in tables, set all of the cells which need backgrounds with the background="" property, as well as using CSS in tags saying the same thing to cover my bases. The body background shows fine in outlook, but the TD backgrounds do not. I've tried also using but that doesn't work either. I've read that Outlook 2007 doesn't support background images and won't in the future, I'm thinking there has to be a way around it??