Lets you to easily find and replace text with other formatting in Docs™.
Listing updated:August 19, 2024
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Overview
The Advanced Find & Replace add-on for Google Docs™ revolutionizes your document editing experience by providing powerful tools to search and replace text and formatting efficiently. With the ability to use regular expressions and a wide range of customization options, this add-on saves you time and enhances your document management capabilities.


Features:

- Find and Replace with Regular Expressions:
  - Perform advanced searches using regular expressions to locate specific characters, words, or phrases.
  - Replace text and formatting based on complex patterns.

- Advanced Search Conditions:
  - Use logical operators such as AND, OR, and NOT to refine your search criteria and find exactly what you need.

- Flexible Replacement Options:
  - Replace text or apply formatting changes such as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font name, font size, background color, and foreground color.
  - Use escape characters to replace special characters and ensure accurate modifications.

- Comprehensive Formatting Options:
  - Search and replace formatting styles including bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, normal, subscript, superscript, font settings, and link URLs.

- Bulk Content Removal:
  - Remove various elements in bulk, such as images, text links, tables (with or without text), paragraphs, page breaks, drawings, list items, text, equations, text color, highlight color, and line breaks.

- Advanced Paragraph Tools:
  - Utilize pattern matching to find and adjust line spacing and paragraph styles for consistent formatting.
  - Apply paragraph tools for advanced formatting adjustments and layout management.


Free Version Limitations:

- 30 Attempts: The trial version allows you to use the advanced features up to 30 times, providing a glimpse into the full capabilities of the add-on.


Optimize your document editing process with the Advanced Find & Replace add-on for Google Docs™. Experience powerful search and replace functionality and streamline your workflow today!


Video help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OoD8jECizQ&list=PL1ULeCgpH_H_2NDhB_2O4Be7wK7aC-eV4


* Google services impose daily quotas and hard limitations on some features - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/quotas

- Advanced Find & Replace use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
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Web MarketingSVC (WMS)
October 4, 2024
From the looks of things, this plugin might have had a rough start in terms of usage and reviews. I can't speak to that, but I can speak to what it's done for my team and I. We received a manuscript already formatted for Apple Pages. Problem was, there's NO WAY (as unbelievable as it sound for a "professional app" that's been around for years) to Search/Replace based on formatting. None. Nada. Zero. This quickly turned into a nightmare, as there were hundreds of instances across the book where formatting was inconsistent. In some places a word was in italics, in other places in bold, and in some cases in bold italic! And let's not even discuss M and N dashes! Gah. Looking at this job, we could tell it was going to take MANY, MANY hours to curry this text by hand. It would literally have entailed a manual "select and correct" across the entire manuscript, one lil job at a time after another after another. Ugh. And I was pretty sure that we'd miss some and have to go back through it a second time, and maybe a third, entailing yet more time and aggravation. Enter this wonderful little app. By transferring the chapters one by one (a chore, to be sure, but by comparison a small one in light of what we were looking at otherwise) to Google Docs, and running this app, we fixed all the bugaboos in about an hour, and had a finished manuscript an hour after that! This thing ended up being a HUGE time and sanity saver, and well worth the reasonable and fair price. I don't know why, in the year 2024, that it's so hard to find a rich text editor that will do an "easy" job like this (search and replace based on format), but after hours of searching (double ugh) this was the only "quick 'n' dirty" solution we could find. But we are so glad we did! :-D Thanks to the dev(s). This is a lifesaver lil app!
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Andrew Malcolmson
April 20, 2024
Works well for me and absolutely worth paying $5 for a lifetime license. It's true some Regex features are unavailable but I believe that's an underlying Docs limitation. For those who can't figure out how to use it, email the developer for help. He does respond.
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Nicholas Idoko
April 24, 2024
It works! I was able to use it to bold texts before colon and there were up to a 1000 of them. This is great!
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Megan Shaver
December 7, 2023
It does show up in Google Docs, but it doesn't do what it says it will. It does the same thing as normal find and replace but slower and freezes Google Docs until you reload the page. It also tries to scam you into a "premium" version to use it for more than 30 clicks, but it doesn't work so you're going to lose them all trying to troubleshoot it on the first attempt.
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Angela Drake
August 5, 2024
This tool seems like exactly what I need, but the instructions are a bit unclear to me. Maybe I'm missing it, but I'm trying to remove single occurrences of " while ignoring areas where two quotations are beside one another i.e. "". Is this possible, and how would I achieve this?
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Mac MacDaniel
May 16, 2024
Installed this to try and change hard returns to soft returns but it doesn't support that feature. Honestly it doesn't seem to do much of anything. Totally useless.
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Troy Whedbee
June 23, 2024
Does not work. Do not waste your time!!
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Paul Shustak
December 16, 2023
I can't tell you if it works because there is literally no way to launch the app.
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A. H. Trachsler
July 1, 2024
literally can't open it in google docs. Useless.
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Grzegorz Suwala
March 14, 2024
Cannot uninstall it works but they want you to pay to use it it's a joke
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