LibreOffice: Find and replace words - how it works

In LibreOffice you can quickly and easily search and replace words if you want to continuously change certain passages in a longer text. We explain how this works in this practical tip.

Find and replace words in LibreOffice

Replacing individual words with others can be tedious. With the "Find and Replace" option, you can do it in no time:

1. In the LibreOffice document, click "Edit"> "Find and Replace" in the menu bar.
2. Enter the word you want to replace under "Search" in the window. Click "Find" to find all the words in the document.
3. Enter the new word under "Replace with".
4. Click "Replace All" to replace the word in all text passages.
5. Under "More options" you can enter further criteria, for example to find similar words or to replace the word only in a certain section.

If you would like to activate the automatic spell checker for your text, we will show you in another practical tip how this works