Find & Replace

The classic mistake

Replacing “pin” with “board” in a hurry turns Pinterest into Boardterest and spinning into spinning-board, because a plain find and replace has no idea what a word is. Whole-word matching is the default here for that reason: it changes the standalone word and leaves every longer word that contains it alone. Switch to “any part of a word” only when you mean to edit inside words.

Regex without fear

Three patterns cover most bulk edits. \b marks a word boundary, so \bpin\b matches the word and nothing else. \d+ matches any run of digits, useful for renumbering a list. And $1 in the replacement reuses whatever the first bracket captured, so (\w+) ideas can become Ideas about $1. Everything else is a variation on those three.

Preview before you copy

The result panel counts how many lines changed and shows each one with the old and new wording side by side. A replace that touches forty lines when you expected three is the signal that your pattern was too loose — fix it before the text reaches twenty pin descriptions.

How to use Find & Replace

1. Paste the text you want to edit.
2. Enter what to find and what to put in its place.
3. Check the preview, then copy the result.