>I am trying to send emails that have html formatting in the message and I've note been able to figure out how to do it. What shows up is the html tags and not the formatting that I want.

Are you using OE? What you need to do is put the HTML into a file, and bring it up in IE. Then, Ctrl+A in IE, and copy that into OE. I've never been able to actually type in HTML to an OE message and have it realize whats happnin'.