Hi Craig and thanks.....

>The person receiving the email must have an email application that can format >the message as HTML and possibly have set some options to do this.

Pretty much understood this. I was doing the testing by sending it to myself. All the html stuff in OE was properly checked. All I got was the tags and not the format. I've just never tried to do this before and got the idea from a CRAM newsletter that had a really cool question of the day for W2K exams. It was in a table with option buttons and a submit command button and some other links and stuff at the bottom. I saved it to html and studied the code as I want to do something similar in a project for a friend that sends out materials to help folks in recovery. It has kind of tuned into a real learning experience.

Thanks again.