LinkedIn Text Formatter

How to format a LinkedIn post

1. Write or paste your draft in the editor.
2. Select a word or a line and press B, I or U, or use Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U (Cmd on a Mac). Press it again to go back to plain text.
3. Select a few lines and press the list button to start each one with a bullet or with 1., 2., 3.
4. Check the preview on desktop and mobile, press Copy post and paste it into LinkedIn.

Why LinkedIn posts have no bold button

The LinkedIn post box takes plain text. Only the article and newsletter editor has formatting buttons. To get bold or italic in a normal post, the formatter replaces your letters with look-alike Unicode characters (𝐁 instead of B), which LinkedIn stores and shows like any other text. The bold text generator explains the characters behind each style and shows every style side by side.

Where the "...see more" cut lands

The feed shows the start of your post and hides the rest behind "...see more". LinkedIn does not document where that happens. What you see in the feed is roughly the first 210 characters on desktop and around 140 on a phone, and the text also stops after about three lines. Blank lines count as lines, so a hook split into short lines with gaps gets cut sooner than the character count suggests. The preview above applies both rules as an estimate, so treat it as a guide and look at the published post on your phone.

The full post can be up to 3,000 characters (LinkedIn Help, checked September 2026). To check the same text against X, Instagram and other networks, use the character counter.

Examples

• A hook in bold: 𝐖𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬. Put it on the first line, then a blank line, so it is what people read before the cut.
• A numbered list: select three lines such as "Shorter meetings", "No meetings on Friday" and "Written updates", press the numbered list button, and each line starts with 1., 2. and 3.
• Italic for a title: "My book of the year: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑚 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡". Italic marks the title without shouting.

Before you post

• Bold a few words, not whole paragraphs. Screen readers may read styled letters one by one or skip them.
• Keep hashtags, @mentions and links plain. A styled hashtag is a different word, and a mention only works when you pick the person from LinkedIn's list.
• Search inside LinkedIn will not match your styled words, so keep the words people might search for plain.

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