Bear with me because I am as new as they get to html but I am using Cooler Email to create a newsletter and am trying to add background color to part of my article. Using the bg color command changes the entire stationery of my newsletter. Any suggestions? Thank you for your help!

Do you edit the actual code or does "bg color command" mean a button that you push? Have no idea what Cooler Email is or how it works.

Anyway, you have to use CSS to set background colors to individual items. Since it is a HTML email you are trying to create you'd probably be best off to use the CSS with the style attribute. If you have for instance a DIV (could be anything) that you want to have a red background color...