How to find and replace text
- Paste your text into the "Your text" box. "Try an example" loads a short paragraph and fills in "colour" and "color" for you.
- Type the word or phrase to find, then what should replace it. Leave "Replace with" empty to delete every match.
- Set the options. Turn on "Match case" to respect capitals, or "Whole words only" to skip matches inside longer words.
- Check the result and the count, then copy it or download it as a .txt file.
Features
- Replaces every match at once and shows how many were changed.
- Live preview that updates as you type in any box.
- Match case for exact capitalisation.
- Whole words only so "art" doesn't change "start" or "article".
- Plain-text matching, so symbols like $, ., ( and * need no special handling.
- Delete mode by leaving the replacement empty.
- Copy and .txt download of the edited text.
Match case and whole words, with examples
Take the sentence "Our colour scheme uses a colour palette with one main colour. Colourful!"
- Default settings, find "colour", replace with "color": four changes, including "Colourful" becoming "colorful".
- Match case on: three changes. "Colourful" starts with a capital so it no longer matches.
- Whole words only on: three changes. "Colourful" is a longer word, so it is skipped.
Whole-word matching treats letters, digits and the underscore as part of a word. That means "2024" won't match inside "20245", and "user" won't match inside "user_name", which is what you want when renaming a variable in a code snippet.
Common uses
- Spelling conversions, such as British to American spellings, or the other way round.
- Renaming a product, client or character throughout a document.
- Updating details like a phone number, price or date that appears several times.
- Removing tracking codes, repeated signatures or filler words.
- Swapping separators, for instance turning semicolons into commas before importing a list.
The Find box takes a single line, so a match cannot span a line break. If you need to change line breaks or spacing, the remove extra spaces tool is designed for that.
Why use Fileora's find and replace
Not every place you write has a good find-and-replace: web forms, some content systems and phone apps often don't. Paste your text here, make your changes and paste it back.
It runs in your browser, so drafts, contracts and code snippets stay private. There's no cost, no sign-up and it works on a phone.
When you need patterns rather than fixed words, try the regex tester. To see exactly what changed, compare the before and after in the diff checker.