I am composing an HTML email using a service (MailChimp). The way that MailChimp marks up headings is to use a SPAN tag and gives the tag the inline style of
SPAN
The CSS display attribute is not supported in this version of MS Outlook.
display
Here's "The Book" on what you can and cannot use:
campaignmonitor.com/css/
Basically, if you can't change your mark-up to a natively-block item, you're stuck.