Free Online Find & Replace Text

About the Find & Replace Tool

Find and replace is one of the most useful editing operations there is, but it is often buried in a menu or missing entirely from a web form. This tool gives you a full-width workspace for the source text and a clear preview of the result, so you can inspect changes before copying them back into your document.

In the default plain-text mode, the search string is treated literally. Characters such as dots, brackets, and question marks match themselves, which makes everyday replacements safe. When you enable the regular expression option, the search string becomes a pattern. That allows you to match numbers, repeated whitespace, or groups of characters in one pass, and to reference captured groups with $1, $2, and so on in the replacement field. The match counter tells you how many occurrences were found, which is valuable for checking that a pattern is neither too broad nor too narrow.

Case sensitivity and global replacement

The case sensitive option distinguishes “Apple” from “apple”. Leave it off for normal editing and turn it on for code identifiers or brand names where capitalisation matters. The replace all occurrences option controls whether every match is changed or only the first one. All processing happens locally, so contracts, drafts, and internal documents never leave your device.

Frequently asked questions