Yes, enable Word as your E-mail Editor and also enable the Formatting
toolbar. You'll now get a Highlight icon which default is set to yellow.
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"dlw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Outlook 2003, HTML format, can you change the *background* color of the
> font,
> I'm trying to highlight something. Format Font only does the font color.
> Thank you.