Find and Replace Text
Find a word or phrase in your text and replace it with something else.
How to use this tool
- Enter text, find and replace with in the fields above.
- Results update instantly as you type — or click Calculate.
- Read your result and the full breakdown beneath it.
Find a word or phrase in your text and replace it with something else.
How it works
This tool finds every occurrence of a word or phrase in your text and replaces it with a different word or phrase. Paste your text, enter what you want to find, and enter the replacement — all matches are substituted simultaneously and the modified text is returned.
The replacement is global (all occurrences are replaced, not just the first) and case-sensitive, so 'Cat' and 'cat' are treated as different strings. If you leave the Replace with field empty, all occurrences of the search term are deleted from the text.
This is a lightweight alternative to opening a word processor when you need to quickly rename a term across a document, fix a repeated typo, swap a placeholder like [CLIENT_NAME] for a real value, or remove a recurring phrase from pasted content.
Worked example
Replace a placeholder name in a template
- Paste the template text containing '[CLIENT_NAME]' multiple times.
- Enter '[CLIENT_NAME]' in the Find field.
- Enter 'Acme Corp' in the Replace with field.
- Read the personalised output with all placeholders replaced.
All [CLIENT_NAME] instances replaced with 'Acme Corp'
Common mistakes to avoid
- Replacing a short substring that appears inside other words — for example, replacing 'and' also changes 'standard' to 'strd'. Use spaces around the search term to avoid this.
- Forgetting the replacement is case-sensitive and missing capitalised occurrences of the target word.
- Not reviewing the output — automated replacement can introduce grammatical errors such as changing 'a' to 'an' when the next word starts with a consonant.
Key terms
- Global replacement
- A find-and-replace operation that substitutes every matching instance in the text, not just the first one.
- Placeholder
- A token in a template (such as [NAME] or {{email}}) intended to be replaced with real values before use.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this support regular expressions?
- No — the search term is treated as a plain string. Special regex characters are automatically escaped.