Find and Replace Text
Replace every occurrence of a word or pattern across your text.
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Find and replace text across a whole document at once. Enter what to look for and what to replace it with, with options for case sensitivity and regular expressions for advanced patterns. It shows a live count of matches and runs entirely in your browser.
Beyond what a word processor gives you
Every editor has find and replace, so a dedicated tool earns its place through what it does with text you have pasted rather than a file you have open. Renaming a term consistently across an exported document, standardising formatting in data copied out of a spreadsheet, or fixing a mistake repeated a hundred times in a log. It is one operation instead of a hundred, and it does not miss any.
The mistake everyone makes once
Replacing a short word without matching whole words only. Replace cat with dog across a document and you will also produce dogalogue, edudogion and dogastrophe. It is funny once and genuinely expensive when it happens in code or in a contract. Either enable whole word matching or include enough surrounding context in your search term to make it unambiguous.
Working safely
- Keep a copy of the original before you replace anything.
- Search first and check what matches before you replace.
- Watch out for case, since replacing the word does not fix it at the start of a sentence.
- For anything complicated, a regular expression is the right tool rather than several passes.
How to use Find and Replace Text
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Paste your text.
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Enter the find and replace terms.
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Copy the updated text.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Enable the regex option to use regular-expression patterns for advanced replacements.