LinkedIn Text Formatter

A LinkedIn text formatter is a free tool that adds bold, italic and bullet points to text you want to post on LinkedIn. You format your draft here, then copy and paste it into LinkedIn. The styling stays because it’s built into the characters themselves.

Not in a regular post or comment. LinkedIn has no bold button there, on the website or in the app. LinkedIn Articles and Newsletters do have a formatting bar. For posts, comments and your profile, create bold text with a formatter like this one, then paste it in.

1. Paste your post into the editor above. 2. Highlight the words you want in bold. 3. Click Bold. 4. Click Copy post. 5. In LinkedIn, click Start a post, paste the text and click Post. You can bold several parts of the post before you copy it.

Select the words in the editor and click Italic. Italics work well for a quote, the name of a book or product, or a short side note. Click Copy post and paste the text into LinkedIn. To remove italics later, select the words and click Plain text.

Put each point on its own line, select those lines and click Bullet list. A “•” is added at the start of each line. If a line already starts with -, * or •, it’s replaced, so you won’t get double bullets. Copy the post and paste it into LinkedIn; the bullets stay.

Press Enter once to start a new line and twice to leave a blank line between paragraphs. Short paragraphs of one to three lines are easier to read on a phone. Copy post keeps all your line breaks when you paste the text into LinkedIn.

It can. To LinkedIn search, 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 and sales are different words, so a styled keyword may not be found. Screen readers may also read styled letters one at a time or skip them. Use bold for a few words that grab attention, and keep keywords and key facts in regular text.

Bold and italic letters are special Unicode characters. Almost all modern phones and computers can show them, but a few older devices or apps may show boxes instead. The letter shapes can also look slightly different from one phone to another. Check your post on your own phone after you publish.

Yes. Select the styled words and click Plain text, and they turn back into regular letters. If nothing is selected, Plain text resets the whole draft. Your line breaks, bullet points, Chinese text and punctuation stay as they are.

English letters A to Z can be made bold or italic, and the numbers 0 to 9 can be made bold. Chinese, Japanese and other languages, emoji and punctuation don’t have bold versions, so they stay as they are. @mentions, #hashtags and links stay in regular letters so they keep working.