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LinkedIn post formatter

LinkedIn doesn't have a bold button. Write your post here, style the lines that matter, and see where the feed will cut it off before you publish.

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LinkedIn post formatter

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Three steps

How it works

  1. Write or paste your post into the editor.

  2. Select words and choose bold, italic, or another style. Check the counts and the preview.

  3. Copy the formatted post and paste it into LinkedIn.

GuideReviewed

How to format a LinkedIn post people finish reading

Contents

How LinkedIn bold and italic work

LinkedIn posts only accept plain text. Bold and italic "fonts" are really different Unicode characters that look like styled letters, so they survive copy and paste into the post box.

That trick has costs. Screen readers often read styled letters one at a time or skip them, LinkedIn search doesn't match them to normal words, and they can count as two characters toward the limit. Use them for a few words, never whole paragraphs.

Write for the first two lines

Most readers decide from the text above "…see more". LinkedIn doesn't publish where that cut falls, and it moves with the device and the app version. The commonly observed cut is about 140 characters on mobile and about 210 on desktop, and the feed also folds after roughly three lines.

  • Put the point of the post in the first sentence, not a warm-up.
  • Keep the opening under about 140 characters so it reads the same on phones.
  • Avoid blank lines before the fold. Each one spends a line of the preview.
  • Save links, hashtags, and calls to action for the end.

Keep it scannable

Short paragraphs, one idea each, read better in a feed than dense blocks. Bullets help when you list steps or results. Bold one phrase per section at most, so the emphasis still means something.

Questions, answered

What people ask before they use the LinkedIn post formatter.

LinkedIn has no formatting buttons for posts. Type your post in this formatter, select the words, choose Bold, then copy the result into LinkedIn. The styled characters paste in as they appear.

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