Find and Replace Text
Find and replace words or phrases in a text instantly. With case-sensitive, whole-word and regular expression options.
What is the find and replace tool?
The find and replace text tool locates every occurrence of a word or phrase and swaps it for another in a single step. It is the fastest way to make bulk changes to a document without reviewing it by hand or relying on a word processor.
Unlike a simple basic find and replace, this tool adds professional options: case sensitivity, limiting the change to the whole word, and using regular expressions with references like $1. It also shows how many matches were replaced so you stay in full control.
If you only need to clean the text, try remove extra spaces or remove accents.
What is find and replace for?
Edit documents
Change a name, a date or a repeated term across the whole text in one go, without reviewing paragraph by paragraph.
Clean data and code
Replace separators, tags or patterns with regular expressions to prepare lists, CSV or code snippets.
Translate and localise
Swap brand terms or vocabulary for their equivalent when adapting a text to another country or language variant.
Fix errors in bulk
If you have misspelled a word many times, correct it across the whole text with a single safe replacement.
Replacing with regular expressions
Regular expressions let you search patterns instead of fixed text. Some useful examples: \d+ finds groups of digits, \s+ finds spaces, and (\w+)@(\w+) captures parts of a text.
In the replacement field you can reuse what was captured with $1, $2, etc. For example, searching (\d2)/(\d2) and replacing with $2-$1 swaps the day and month of a date. If the expression is invalid, the tool warns you without modifying the text.