nothing i put into the product description will show the formatting (bold, indention, color, ect), but the detail description shows it. I'd like to make my descriptions pop a little they are basic like a generic amazon description.
it show it on my admin products, but when i submit it it isn't formatted.

Hi there
This is likely to be because you have the shortdescriptionlimit parameter. What happens normally if you set this and have HTML tags in your description is that the description is cut halfway through a tag and the rest of the page then displays incorrectly, and because of this HTML tags are stripped (which is normally what is required if you are only displaying a few characters of the description.)
But, you can override this behaviour by adding this parameter...
nostripshortdescription=TRUE
...to your vsadmin/includes.asp file.

Vince

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