Yes, but not built into Outlook, because it's RTF. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formatmsg.htm for the CDO and Redemption SafeInspector techniques.

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Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Gary F" Gary wrote in message ...
Outlook lets you manipulate the body of outlook tasks: bold, font size, etc.,
but the TaskItem VBA object doesn't seem to have the right properties (like a
mail item) to allow you to maniplate the text's styling programmatically. Is
there a way to do it?