I did a little research and was able to write this code:
strbody = "<BODY style=font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri>Good Morning;<p>We have completed our main aliasing process for today. All assigned firms are complete. Please feel free to respond with any questions.<p>Thank you.</BODY>"
apparently by setting the "font-size=11pt"
instead of setting the font size <font size=5>
,
It allows you to select a specific font size like you normally would in a text editor, as opposed to selecting a value from 1-7 like my code was originally.
This link from simpLE MAn gave me some good info.