Find and Replace Tool

Replace a literal word or phrase everywhere

Paste content, enter the exact text to find, supply replacement text, and select Replace all. Leave the replacement empty to remove matches. The original remains available for comparison.

Literal matching keeps the task predictable

The find box is treated as ordinary text, not as a regular expression. Characters such as periods, brackets, plus signs, and question marks match themselves. By default, capitalization is ignored, so “Blue,” “blue,” and “BLUE” all match a search for “blue.” Select exact capitalization when those forms must remain distinct.

What Replace all changes

Every nonoverlapping match is replaced from left to right. Replacement content is inserted literally, including dollar signs and backslashes. Line breaks elsewhere stay intact. The tool does not automatically preserve each match's capitalization; replacing a case-insensitive match with “green” produces “green” for every matched form.

Worked example

Paste “Draft sent Monday. New draft due Monday.” Find “Monday” and replace it with “Tuesday.” The result is “Draft sent Tuesday. New draft due Tuesday.” The summary reports two replacements. To delete both dates instead, leave Replace with empty. Spaces around the removed word remain because they were not part of the find phrase.

Avoid accidental partial-word changes

This tool matches inside longer words. Finding “cat” also changes the matching letters in “catalog.” Include surrounding punctuation or spaces when that safely narrows the phrase, or review the result carefully. Text with multiple spacing variants may need cleanup first. For complex boundaries, capture groups, or pattern rules, use a code editor with regular-expression support.

Privacy and limits

All replacement work stays in the browser. Awesome Tools does not upload or store the pasted text. There is no undo history after you clear the original, no rich-text formatting, and no file import. Browser memory limits apply to very large documents. Copy the result only after checking names, URLs, capitalization, and phrases where the same letters carry different meanings.

Find and Replace FAQ

Can I remove a phrase?

Yes. Enter the phrase under Find and leave Replace with empty.

Does it replace only the first match?

No. Replace all updates every match and reports the count.

Can it match whole words only?

Not automatically. This focused tool performs literal substring matching, so review partial-word matches.

Related tools

• Whitespace Cleaner
• Case Converter
• Character Counter

Limitations to review before copying

Matching is literal and can occur inside longer words; review output because this focused tool has no whole-word mode or undo history.