Which browser are you using? All the ones I’ve ever played with with the view source window is a read only text editor which means you can highlight selected text, then a clipboard copy will just give that.
Also it’s worth remembering that Word can do most not horrible complicated HTML and save as HTML, which is really just a text file you can open with notepad and copy and paste to FR. Kind of clunky, and Word is by no means a good web page editor, but again if you’re just putting together some hrefs and img srcs it’ll do and your work machine probably has Word on it.
IE 8. And I’ve looked and looked at Word options. Like you said, they are klunky. I didn’t even see a save as HTML option. Not sure I would even want to go to that much trouble.