This software allows users to search their files using four different methods, including plain-text, grep expressions, fuzzy, and sound-alike. It can also find misspelled text and has six different viewing options. Users can replace text in multiple files and the software can index files to find a word on their hard drive in less than a second. Additionally, it can zip found files.

The users can search files in four different ways, including plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. The software provides the facility to find words even if they are misspelled. Moreover, users can view, edit, or launch found files in six different ways. An ASCII text editor and a binary-file viewer are also built-in, providing easier navigation from finding to finding for quick file or document examination.
The software offers some advanced features like replacing text safely across multiple files and folders. Users can choose from four levels of confirmation, including word by word. Changed files are backed up automatically. The software also provides the facility to replace by regular expressions. Furthermore, users can use a password to disable replace functions for risky users, such as kids or new users.
The software has an index feature that allows users to index selected files or their entire hard drive to find a word with split-second text retrieval. It immediately shows the list of files that the word is in, and users can view or launch those files in six different ways. Additionally, users can find misspelled words in the index easily. The index feature can also be used to keep an overview of writing projects.
The software offers about 70 options to control find and replace operations, what appears in results, file extensions, and so on. Other functions include touch, change file attributes, batch-mode find and replace, binary-character search, list files, and drag and drop from Windows Explorer. The program has pop-up, context-sensitive help via the F1 key, making it user-friendly.
Overall, Finders Keepers is an effective and comprehensive software that provides various features to its users with advanced options for find and replace operations. It is a must-have software for anyone who deals with a large volume of files as it makes text retrieval quick and effortless.
Version 4.10.1.2: Modified regular expressions and sound-alike searches for improved speed.