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Find & Replace

Replace words or phrases across any body of text in one click. Supports whole-word-only matches, case-sensitive search and handles literal text (no regex escaping needed). Perfect for cleaning up lists, renaming terms, reformatting copy and editing drafts. All processing happens in your browser — your content never leaves your device.

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How to use Find & Replace

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    Add the text you want to edit.

  2. 2

    Set find & replace

    Enter what to search for and its replacement.

  3. 3

    Tune options

    Toggle case-sensitive and whole-word matching.

  4. 4

    Get the result

    Review the replacement count and copy the output.

When is find & replace useful?

Rename a repeated term across a document, fix a recurring typo, standardise formatting or clean up copied content — without manually scanning every line.

Literal text search

The search term is always treated as plain text, so special characters like periods, asterisks and brackets are matched literally rather than as regex.

Whole word option

Use whole-word matching to avoid replacing partially inside longer words — e.g. 'cat' won't replace the 'cat' inside 'catalogue'.

Examples

Fix a typo

Input
teh ... teh ...
Output
the ... the ...

Rename a term

Input
search 'foo' replace 'bar'
Output
All 'foo' become 'bar'

Frequently asked questions

Does it work with special characters?

Yes. The search term is treated as literal text, so characters like *, . and [ are matched exactly and do not need escaping.

Can I replace only whole words?

Yes. Enable Whole Word to only replace complete words and leave partial matches inside longer words untouched.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. Processing happens entirely in your browser and your text is never sent to a server.

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Last updated 7 August 2026