email formatting disappears on review

[Mayr]

I have changed from using Outlook Express to Outlook. The email is created in
MSWord and I properly space and align the text and pictures or whatever I
have in the email.
I click "Send and Receive" and it disappears. I go to the outbox and there
it sits, so I click on it to open it and it is squished to the top of the
page, with no formatting or spacing between lines/pictures etc. It also does
not perform a spellcheck before it goes to the outbox. So I have reformatted
it again! and the spellcheck comes on and then off it goes!
What have I missed in setting up this program?
Thank you for any help and not using the word "DUH" in your response!
MaryAnn