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Find Text
Find every occurrence of a word or pattern and see where it is.
Highlighted text
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Quick Tool Overview
Find Text shows every occurrence of a word, phrase or regular expression at once — highlighted in the full text and listed individually with line numbers and surrounding context. Several terms can run together, each in its own colour.
- What it does
- Finds and highlights every match in a text
- You give it
- A document and one or more search terms
- You get back
- Highlighted text plus a list of matches with line numbers
- Best for
- Auditing documents, logs and transcripts
About the Find Text
Browser find gives you a count and lets you step through matches one at a time. That is fine for a page and useless for a document where you want to see all the matches at once, in context, with the line numbers they appear on.
This finds every occurrence of a word, a phrase or a regular expression and shows them all together: highlighted in the full text, and listed individually with their line number and the words around them. Matching can be case-sensitive, whole-word only, or a full regular expression with capture groups. Several search terms can be run at once, each highlighted in its own colour, which is how you compare where two terms appear in a document.
Key features of the Find Text
All matches at once
Not one at a time like browser find — every occurrence is visible together, in context.
Several terms, several colours
Search multiple words in one pass and see how each is distributed through the document.
Regular expression mode
Full JavaScript syntax with capture groups, and an invalid pattern is reported rather than silently matching nothing.
Whole-word matching
The difference between three matches and thirty, when your term is also a common prefix.
Line numbers and context
Each match carries its line number and the words around it, so you can find it in the source.
How to use the Find Text
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Paste your text
A document, a log, a transcript or any body of text.
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Enter what to find
A word, a phrase, several terms one per line, or a regular expression.
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Set the matching rules
Case sensitivity, whole-word matching and regular expression mode are each a switch.
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Read the matches
Every occurrence is highlighted in the text and listed with its line number and surrounding context.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Regular expression mode accepts standard JavaScript syntax including character classes, quantifiers, anchors and capture groups. An invalid pattern is reported rather than silently returning nothing.
Yes. Put one term per line and each is highlighted in its own colour with its own count, which makes it easy to see how two terms are distributed through a document.
It requires a word boundary at each end, so searching for "art" finds the standalone word but not "start", "party" or "artist". It is the difference between 3 matches and 30 in a typical document.
No, this one only finds. Use Find and Replace when you want to change what you have found — keeping them separate means neither tool can modify your text unexpectedly.
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