Sharepoint - How to copy email body from a workflow step

In SharePoint designer 2010, we can certainly copy the content of the workflow mail. Here is the way to do it:

  1. Click on the email action in your workflow (it means it should be selected).
  2. Next go to the advanced properties in the ribbon, if you click that "Send an Email Properties" dialog box will be opened.
  3. In that dialog box, there will be a row called body, click on that, in the right column, you will be able to see the content of your body.
  4. Just right click on that and select copy and paste it in a notepad or word document!

That's it! You don't need to do the formatting again and again, just copy and paste it. :D


You can open XML in notepad and then copy the text.

It will not copy the fields though.


Here is the technique I use quite a lot when I cant copy text which I see on the screen:

If you have Microsoft OneNote installed, you can capture an image representing the body and then past it in One Note. Then right-click on the image and select "Copy Text from Picture" option. This will extract the text from the picture and it works quite well.