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Find and replace

Search every scanned article and translation, preview the result article by article, then apply. Previewing is free; applying needs Pro or Business.

Find and replace screen with Find and Replace with fields, options, scope buttons, language checkboxes and a preview table with highlighted matches

Search options

  • Find and Replace with. Leave Replace with empty to delete the matched text.
  • Match case, Whole words (Unicode-aware, so accented and non-Latin words work).
  • Regular expression: a JavaScript pattern without the surrounding slashes. Use $1, $2 for captured groups and $& for the whole match in the replacement. Patterns that can match an empty string are rejected.
  • Titles and Bodies can be included separately.
  • Languages: tick any subset of your enabled languages.

Where to look

Visible text
Only the text readers see. Tags, links and attributes are never touched. Safe for rebrands, product names, prices and wording.
Links and images
Only the address of links (href) and images (src), including iframes and videos. Ideal after a domain change or a move to a new file host.
Raw HTML
The HTML source itself. Powerful, and the only mode that can break markup. The app warns you, and the snapshot lets you restore, but review the preview first.

Preview

Matches are previewed live: a count per article and field, highlighted excerpts with context, and Show changes for a word-level diff. Rows are sorted by match count. Untick any row you want to leave alone. Only rows with real changes are listed in the apply dialog.

Applying

Review and apply opens the same dialog as every other change: one row per article translation, a snapshot download before the first write, the content blocks acknowledgement when bodies change, and undo afterwards from Activity. See the Fix Center guide.

Examples

  • Rename a product: find Northwind Cloud, replace with Northwind Platform, scope Visible text, all languages.
  • Move to a new domain: find old-help.example.com, replace with help.example.com, scope Links and images.
  • Update a support phone number in every language: find the old number with Whole words on, scope Visible text.
  • Turn a legacy path into the new one with a capture group: regular expression /hc/en-us/articles/(\d+)-old- replaced by /hc/en-us/articles/$1-, scope Links and images.