
Then tap “Replace” or “Replace All,” depending on what you selected in the previous step. Here, enter the text string that will replace the old one. If you’d like to replace the currently highlighted occurrence of the text string, select “Replace.” To replace all occurrences of the text, choose “Replace All.”Īt the bottom of your screen, you will see a text box. To access the replace options, then next to the “Find” box, tap the three dots.

Docs will highlight all the occurrences of the specified text string. Click this box and enter the text string you want to find in your document. In the menu that opens, tap “Find and Replace.”Īt the top of your screen, you will see a “Find” box. On the document screen, in the top-right corner, tap the three dots. To start, open Google Docs on your phone and access your document.
#HOW TO USE GOOGLE DOCS ON ANDROID ANDROID#
On your Android phone, you can use find and replace in the Google Docs app.

Use Find and Replace in Google Docs on Android Google Docs will replace the specified text string for you in your document. To replace just the currently highlighted occurrence of your text string, click “Replace.” To replace all occurrences of your specified text string in your document, click “Replace All.” Ignore Latin Diacritics: To have all the Latin diacritics ignored while performing find and replace, activate this option.Match Using Regular Expressions: Select this option to use regular expressions to find and replace content.Match Case: If you only want to find text strings that match the entered text’s case, then enable this option.For example, if you’d like to replace Windows with Mac, then type Windows in the “Find” field and enter Mac in the “Replace With” field.īeneath “Replace With,” you have a few options to change how Find and Replace works: To replace the specified text string with another string, click the “Replace With” field and type the new string.
