Advanced Find and Replace for Docs

Find & replace with regex, whole word, headers, footers & footnotes

The find and replace Google Docs should have shipped with. All the power the
built-in tool leaves out — regular expressions, whole-word matching, and search
that actually reaches your headers, footers, and footnotes.

WHAT IT DOES
• Find and replace across the whole active document.
• Match case and whole-word (\b boundary) matching — both free.
• Search inside headers, footers, and footnotes, not just the body.
• Regular expressions with $1 capture-group references in the replacement (Pro).
• Formatting preserved — bold, italic, links, and styles survive the replace.
• Count matches — preview exactly how many hits before you commit.
• Replace all — reports the exact number of occurrences changed.

GREAT FOR
• Cleaning up and standardizing long documents and reports.
• Renaming terms, fixing typos, and updating boilerplate everywhere at once.
• Editors and writers who need patterns, not just plain text.

FREE & PRO
• Free: match case, whole word, headers/footers/footnotes, count matches —
  200 replacements/month, no signup.
• Pro: full regular expressions with capture groups + unlimited replacements.
  14-day full trial.

Privacy-first: the add-on only touches your active document — nothing else in
your Drive. Fast support and frequent updates.