Find and Replace Text Online
This free find and replace tool swaps every occurrence of a word or phrase in your text for another, all at once. Paste your text, enter what to find and what to replace it with, and press the button — it reports how many replacements it made. An ignore-case option lets you match regardless of capitalization. It is the quick way to bulk-edit text without opening a word processor.
How to Use Find and Replace
- Paste your text into the box.
- Enter the text to find and the text to replace it with.
- Optionally tick Ignore case, then press Replace All and copy the result.
What It Does
The tool finds every instance of your search text and replaces it with your replacement text in a single pass, then tells you how many matches were changed. Leaving the replacement field empty deletes the found text instead — a handy way to strip out an unwanted word, tag, or character throughout a document. With Ignore case on, it matches the search term in any capitalization; with it off, the match is exact.
Why Use Find and Replace?
Bulk text edits are tedious by hand and error-prone if you miss an instance. Find and replace handles them instantly: correcting a misspelled name throughout a draft, swapping a placeholder for a real value, changing terminology across a document, removing repeated phrases, or reformatting data. Writers, editors, developers, and anyone cleaning up text use it to make a consistent change everywhere at once, with a count to confirm nothing was missed.
Replacing vs. Deleting
A useful trick is that find and replace doubles as a delete tool. By searching for something and leaving the “replace with” box blank, you remove every occurrence of it. That makes quick work of stripping out unwanted characters, stray HTML tags, repeated labels, or any text you want gone throughout the document. Combined with the ignore-case option, it is a flexible way to clean and standardize text in seconds.
Private and Instant
All replacing happens in your browser, so your text never leaves your device — safe for private documents. It is instant even on long text, with no signup and no limit, and the replacement count lets you verify the change took effect as expected.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I replace all instances of a word?
Paste your text, enter the word to find and its replacement, and press Replace All. Every match is changed at once.
Can I delete a word instead of replacing it?
Yes — leave the “replace with” box empty and every occurrence of the found text is removed.
Is the find and replace tool free and private?
Yes — it is free, needs no signup, and runs entirely in your browser.
Bulk Editing Without a Word Processor
Find and replace is the fastest way to make a consistent change across a whole block of text. Correcting a name or term that was misspelled throughout a draft, swapping a placeholder like “[COMPANY]” for a real value, updating outdated terminology, standardizing formatting, or reformatting exported data are all jobs that would be tedious and error-prone to do by hand. Replacing every match in one pass — with a count to confirm how many changes were made — guarantees you do not miss an instance, which is exactly the kind of mistake that slips through manual editing.
The tool is just as useful for deleting text as for changing it: search for something and leave the replacement blank, and every occurrence disappears. That makes quick work of stripping out unwanted characters, repeated labels, stray HTML tags, or any text you want gone throughout a document. The ignore-case option adds flexibility, letting you match a word in any capitalization when that is what you want, or keep the match exact when capitalization matters. Because the replacement happens entirely in your browser and reports the number of changes, you can confidently bulk-edit private documents without uploading them anywhere or opening heavier software.