C'mon, Teresa! I have faith in you. After all, it was you that gave me the Outlook idea in the first place. You do have to have the "Rich Text" option clicked on the formatting menu, but I don't think "view source" will turn up unless you have the text set for RTF. The text that you paste into the Mudcat box must have the HTML tags visible. Go for it! If you post your practice stuff here, I'll delete them in a day or two.
Take a look at what I did in the Welcome to Mudcat (click) thread - I used your Outlook idea there, and it worked really well (well...I copied a bit of Max's work from the "create thread" page).
-Joe Offer-