Search and Highlight Text

What Is Search and Highlight Text?

Search and Highlight Text is a free online text search tool that finds a specific word or phrase within a larger piece of text and highlights every occurrence. It provides an easy way to locate repeated terms without manually scanning through a document.

The tool can be useful when reviewing articles, documents, notes, source material, web content and other text. Search results are displayed directly in the browser, allowing you to see where the requested text occurs and how many matches were found.

Why Use Search and Highlight Text?

This tool makes it easier to locate specific words and phrases in text while providing useful search statistics. It supports both case-sensitive and case-insensitive searches and can restrict results to complete words.

How to Use Search and Highlight Text

Searching and highlighting text takes only a few steps. The tool processes the text immediately in your browser.

1. Enter your text — Paste or type the text you want to search into the text area.
2. Enter a search term — Type the word or phrase you want to find.
3. Choose search options — Enable Ignore Case or Whole Words Only if required.
4. Search and highlight — Select Search & Highlight to display every matching occurrence and the search statistics.

Find and Highlight Words in Text Online

Finding a particular word in a long document can be difficult when the text contains many paragraphs. A search and highlight tool provides a faster way to locate the information you need. Enter the text and search term, and the tool identifies the matching occurrences without requiring you to manually scan the document.

Search and Highlight Text can also be used for phrases. For example, you can search for a product name, technical term, person's name, repeated phrase or other specific sequence of text. The results show each matching occurrence so you can quickly review where the term appears.

Search for Exact Words and Phrases

The Whole Words Only option is useful when you need to distinguish a complete word from text contained within another word. For example, searching for "cat" with whole-word matching enabled will find "cat" but will not treat "catalogue" or "location" as matches.

Search Text Without Matching Capitalisation

Enable Ignore Case when capitalisation should not affect the search. This is useful when the same term appears in different forms, such as "Website", "website" and "WEBSITE". When Ignore Case is disabled, the search respects the capitalisation used in the original text.

Search and Highlight Text Information

The tool searches the text exactly as provided, with the available options controlling capitalisation and whole-word matching. It does not rewrite, correct, translate or otherwise modify the original text. The highlighted preview is generated separately from your original input.

Searches are performed locally using JavaScript in your web browser. The tool does not require an account or external text-processing service. Very large amounts of text may take longer to process depending on the device and browser being used.

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