Hello, has anyone done any work with scripting to format summarized saved search results in an e-mail? if so what is the best way to go about doing this?

I think the question is too broad, what do you want to achieve?

we are looking to send our summarized results of an existing saved search. we would like to format the message attached to the search with bold/italics in the text and the columns formatted

Are you emailing a csv attachment or you want to save everything in the body of the email?

we would like everything to be in the body of the e-mail

You can add html content in email body (for example <table ><tr> ) but different email providers or outlook, thunderbird can mess your email up. I think your best is to add it as attachment.

I will DM you a snapshot of a daily status email we scripted. It collects data from a number of search types, builds them into the html table, with exception highlighting then emailing that content.