Find and Replace Text
Perform a simple, literal find-and-replace on text, with case-sensitive and replace-all vs replace-first-occurrence options — no regex syntax needed.
Result (2 replacements)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy cat. The cat barks.
How to Use the Find and Replace Text Tool
Paste your source text, then enter the text you want to find and the text you want to replace it with. Toggle case-sensitivity on or off, and choose whether to replace every occurrence or only the first one found. The tool performs a simple, literal substitution — no regular expression syntax is needed at all.
Example
In "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The dog barks.", finding "dog" and replacing with "cat" with Replace All enabled produces "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy cat. The cat barks." — both occurrences are replaced.
Common Use Cases
- Quickly swapping a name, term, or placeholder throughout a block of text.
- Fixing a repeated typo across a document without touching correctly-spelled words elsewhere.
- Replacing just the first occurrence of a word while leaving the rest of the text unchanged.
FAQs
- How is this different from the Regex Replace Tester? The Regex Replace Tester requires writing a REGEX pattern for advanced, pattern-based matching — useful for things like matching any digit or any email address. This Find and Replace Text tool does simple literal text find-and-replace with no regex syntax needed at all, for users who just want a quick, straightforward substitution.
- What does "case-sensitive" control? When enabled, the search only matches text with exactly the same uppercase/lowercase letters you typed in the Find field. When disabled, "Dog", "dog", and "DOG" are all treated as matches.
- What happens with "Replace First Occurrence Only"? Only the very first match found in the text (reading left to right) gets replaced — every later occurrence of the same text is left exactly as it was.