Find and Replace
Swap every occurrence of a word or phrase across a whole document at once — with case-sensitivity and whole-word matching when you need precision.
How it works
A compact workflow from input to download.
Paste your text
Paste the document, list or block of text you want to edit.
Set find and replace
Enter the text to search for and what it should become. Turn on case-sensitivity or whole-word matching if you need them.
Copy the result
Every match is replaced at once. Copy the updated text out when you are happy with it.
Frequently asked questions
What does whole-word matching do?
Is the search case-sensitive?
Can I delete a word entirely?
Is my text sent to a server?
The classic find-and-replace disaster
Every experienced editor has a story, and they all have the same shape. Someone replaces 'man' with 'person' across a document and ends up with 'personagement', 'huperson resources' and 'romanticperson'. Someone changes a company name from 'Sun' to 'Solar' and turns 'Sunday' into 'Solarday' throughout. Someone swaps 'US' for 'United States' and finds every instance of 'thus' has become 'thUnited States'. The mechanism is always the same: a naive substring match happily replaces text inside other words, because the computer has no idea what a word is unless you tell it. Whole-word matching exists precisely to prevent this, and it is the single most valuable setting on this tool. When your search term is short or is a common fragment of longer words, switch it on before you do anything else.
Read before you replace
A bulk replacement is fast, silent and total, which is exactly what makes it dangerous — it will do the wrong thing thousands of times as cheerfully as it does the right thing once. A few habits make it safe. Keep a copy of the original text somewhere before you start, so a bad replacement is an inconvenience rather than a catastrophe. Think about whether your search term could appear inside a longer word, and enable whole-word matching if it could. Consider whether capitalisation matters, and turn on case-sensitivity if it does. And always read a sample of the output rather than trusting it blind — the errors this tool produces are usually glaring the moment you actually look at the result, and invisible if you do not.
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