VIM: Finding and replacing first N occurrences of a word

Question

I am editing a file and i want to change only a specific word with another word, but only for first N occurrences. I tried multiple commands

N :s/word/newword/

Answer 1

I'm not sure about specifying the first N occurrences, but I often use this command:

:%s/word/newword/gc

Vim then asks for confirmation of each occurrence of word so you can selectively change some but not others.