Find and Replace Text
Replace plain-text or regex matches, choose case sensitivity and replace one or all occurrences locally in your browser. Processing takes place locally in yo…
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What Find and Replace Text does
Replace plain text or regular-expression matches with controls for case sensitivity and replacing one or all occurrences.
Worked example
Replace “colour” with “color” in a draft
Every selected occurrence is updated while unrelated text remains unchanged
How the text is processed
Plain mode searches for an exact text sequence. Regular-expression mode evaluates a pattern and can reuse capture groups in the replacement when supported.
Useful workflows
- Standardize terminology in a document
- Clean delimiters or labels in exported data
- Apply a tested pattern to repeated text
Limits and review checks
- Regular expressions can match more text than expected.
- Replacement syntax for capture groups must match the selected mode.
- Review changes before overwriting an important source document.
Frequently asked questions
How do I replace only the first match?
Disable the global or replace-all option before running the operation.
Why is the replacement text interpreted specially?
In regular-expression mode, symbols such as capture-group references can have a special meaning.
When should I enable regular expressions?
Use them only for pattern-based matching and test on a small copy first, because broad expressions can replace unintended text.
Processing takes place locally in your browser.