Rendering of zero width table cells in Outlook

try putting padding-left and/or padding-right to the tds containing the images, as inline css.

Latest edit: try this --

<tr> <td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin:0;padding:0; border:0" align="right" width="200"><img src="http://lorempixel.com/200/200/" style="display:block;margin:0;padding:0; border:0" border="0"></td> <td style="width: 0px;line-height: 0px; font-size: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;padding:0;margin:0;border:0" width="0"></td> <td style="width: 0px;line-height: 0px; font-size: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;padding:0;margin:0;border:0" width="0"></td> <td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin:0;padding:0; border:0" align="left" ><img src="http://lorempixel.com/200/200/" style="display:block;margin:0;padding:0; border:0" border="0"></td></tr>

i removed the width from tds containing images, hence it takes the default width of the images.

Outlook doesn't like hiding content ;-) But what should work - add some conditional code:

              <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%;table-layout:fixed">
                <tr>
                  <td style="width:217px" valign="top">
                    column 1
                  </td>
                  <!--[if !mso]><!--><td style="line-height:0;max-height:0;width:0;overflow:hidden;font-size:0;display:none" valign="top">
                    hidden column 2
                  </td>
                  <!--<![endif]--><td valign="top">
                    column 3
                  </td>
                </tr>
              </table>

To hide it from outlook, the comments around the column with [!mso / endif] are enough. However you may want to hide in also in outlook.com, gmail.com and some others - for this the other styles are included. Don't forget to restore the settings in mobile view with media queries.

Good luck Oleg