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The procedure you described does not show the actual email's source code, only the HTML portion of it. And for that matter, the "Message Header" option in the Toolbar doesn't really show the email's header, it just toggles the To and CC lines above the message. As you probably know, every email has an elaborate header containing various technical information, including the actual email address that was mailed to, routing info, etc., and an HTML email might be sent as a "two-part" email consisting of both a plain text version and an HTML-formatted version. Which version a recipient sees depends on the recipient's program and preferences. In Outlook Express, I used to be able to access all of that with a few clicks, start to finish on one screen, just as it came from the server. (I could also easily tweak HTML code while composing a message, if I wanted to add, say an HTML character entity or a custom color, or fix a quoting format problem). But apparently Microsoft, in its wisdom, has removed all of that in Outlook 10. Outlook does also allow viewing an email's header (using a separate method), but apparently only if the email was downloaded by Outlook. My messages imported from Outlook Express show no header at all. (Which is tragic, since I need to compare how some are being routed now vs. a mail server change a year ago.)
Is what you've described is all that remains. Any solutions?
Incidentally, I share your view of the ribbon, which is bulky and as confusing as any traditional drop-down menu set. But it is possible to customize it and move some of the tools around. Among other things, I replaced the Delete section with one of my own that doesn't have the Cleanup button in it. Boy, did that button mess up my stuff!
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