About Find and replace text
Find and replace text online to make a controlled edit to a draft or export. You can replace multiline text without regex syntax by entering the literal search and replacement strings. Dollar signs and backslashes in replacement text are inserted literally.
How to replace literal text in a document
- Paste the source and enter the nonempty Find text.
- Enter a replacement, or leave it empty to delete matches, then set case and first/all matching.
- Select Process and review the replacement count and output before downloading.
A practical example
- Input
cat Cat cat
- Result
dog Cat dog
Case matching is enabled, so the uppercase Cat remains unchanged.
Supported input and limitations
- Source input is limited to 5 MB, the search plus replacement to 1 MB, and output to 20 MB. Search text must not be empty.
- Matching is literal, nonoverlapping, and not a regular-expression or whole-word search. Case-insensitive matching uses JavaScript Unicode case rules, not locale-specific linguistic equivalence.
Processing happens on your device. Read about local processing and optional workspace recovery.
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove text by replacing it with nothing?
Yes. Leave Replace with empty. Only matched source text is removed; the rest is preserved.
Are replacement strings such as dollar ampersand interpreted specially?
No. Replacement text is inserted literally, so $&, dollar signs, and backslashes do not expand into regex replacement tokens.