LinkedIn Text Formatter

The LinkedIn post editor has no bold button. Write your text in the tool above, select the words, click Bold, then copy the post and paste it into LinkedIn. The letters are swapped for Unicode characters that look bold, and they stay that way once pasted.

Almost: Unicode has no bold accented letters. So the tool leaves é, à, ç… regular inside a bold word: slightly thinner, but readable everywhere. Placing the accent on top of a bold letter is possible, but on some devices it slides onto the next letter (our tests on Windows show it), so we do not do it.

Yes, the same way: select the words and pick Italic, Bold italic, Underline or Strikethrough. Underline and strikethrough are lines added to each character, so their position varies a little between devices.

Poorly. These characters are math symbols: a screen reader may spell them out, announce their symbol names or skip them. For someone listening to the post, one bold word is fine, a whole bold paragraph becomes gibberish. Keep it to a few words.

No: to a search engine, a word written with these characters is not the same word. Keep the keywords and hashtags people should find you by in plain text.

Up to 3,000 characters, according to LinkedIn’s help center, which suggests writing an article beyond that. The tool’s counter plays it safe: a bold or italic letter is stored as two units, like an emoji, so it counts as two.

After the first few lines. LinkedIn’s help center gives no number: from what we see, it is about three lines, depending on screen width and your line breaks. The preview shows the cut-off at desktop and mobile width.

Select the words and click Plain text: bold, italic, underline and strikethrough are removed and accents are put back together. With nothing selected, the whole post is cleaned. Clicking Bold again also removes bold.

No. Formatting happens in your browser; the text never leaves your device and is not stored anywhere.