HTML E-mail Layouts Breaking When Forwarded - Make it Survive the Word 2003 HTML Editor

Question

My boss\'s clients are complaining that when some HTML newsletters are forwarded, their table-based layout breaks. I have determined that this is most likely caused by using the

Answer 1

I figured out that, in addition to using transparent spacer GIFs, I needed to specify a "width" for each of the s that housed the spacer GIFs.

That solved most of the layout problems, although forwarding an e-mail in outlook with that option set injects a lot of other ugly code that can screw things up.