Find and Replace Text (with Regex)

Paste your text into the input box, type the word or phrase you want to find, then type what it should be replaced with. Hit Replace All and the tool swaps every match in one go. Use the preview to check before copying — particularly useful if you're cleaning up a long document or fixing a name spelling across hundreds of lines. There's a copy button for the cleaned-up output, so you can move it back into your Word doc, email, or code editor.

Two ways. The simplest is to run Find and Replace once per word — paste your text, swap the first pair, hit Replace All, then repeat for the next word without leaving the page. The faster way for big batches is regex mode, where you can match a whole pattern at once like (cat|dog|bird) and replace them all with a single rule. Always preview before copying, especially when you're stacking multiple replacements one after another.

Switch on regex mode. Then your search field accepts patterns instead of plain text — \d+ matches any number, \s+ matches any whitespace, [A-Z]+ matches uppercase letters, and so on. The replace field can use $1, $2 for captured groups. Test on a small sample first because a wrong pattern can rewrite more than you intended. Start with simple patterns and build up; the preview shows the result before you commit, so you can catch mistakes early.

Use a non-greedy pattern like \(.*?\) to remove anything between parentheses, or \[.*?\] for square brackets. The ? makes the match non-greedy, so it stops at the first closing character instead of grabbing everything until the last one. Replace with empty to delete, or with your own text to substitute. Always preview the result — greedy patterns are the most common reason people accidentally wipe out half their document in one click.

Switch on regex mode and use \n (or \r\n for Windows-style line endings) in the find field, then put a single space in the replace field. Hit Replace All. Your text collapses into a single line. Useful for cleaning up text copied from a PDF where every line break makes the paragraph awkward to work with. If you need to keep paragraph breaks, replace \n\n first with a placeholder, do your single-line clean-up, then put paragraph breaks back.

Type a comma in the find field. In the replace field, switch on regex mode and use \n to insert a newline. Run Replace All. Your comma-separated list — like "apple, banana, mango" — splits into separate lines: apple, then banana, then mango. Works the other way too: replace \n with ", " to flatten a list back into a comma-separated row. Handy for moving data between spreadsheets and plain-text fields without manual editing.

Switch on the case-sensitive toggle (it's usually unchecked by default). Now searching for "apple" only matches "apple" and ignores "Apple" or "APPLE". Without it on, the tool treats all three as the same word. Useful when you're working with code variables, brand names, or anything where capitalisation has meaning. Programming languages care about case, so leave the toggle on when you're refactoring variable names. Turn it off when you're cleaning prose.