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How do I make bold or italic text in a LinkedIn post?

LinkedIn posts take plain text only, so the bold and italic you see in some posts are not formatting. They are letters from a separate Unicode block that look bold or italic and survive a paste. This formatter swaps the words you select for those letters, turns lines into dotted, arrowed or numbered lists, and puts one blank line between paragraphs. It counts against LinkedIn's own limit of 3,000 characters, and it runs in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.

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Format your post

Style the selected words

Turn the selected lines into a list

Select the words to style first. With nothing selected, the whole post changes.

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Counted strictly: each styled letter counts as two, the larger of the two usual counts, so a post that fits here is not cut short.

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How it reads in a feed

Your name

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Your post appears here as you type.

Screen readers may read Unicode bold and italic letters badly, and search may not find a styled word. Use them for a few words, not whole posts.

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How this works

  1. 1Bold and italic come from the sans-serif letters of the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, the closest match to the font a feed already uses. A styled letter is a different character, which is why it keeps its look after a paste.
  2. 2Italic has no digits in that block, so numbers stay plain in italic and bold italic text. Bold has them.
  3. 3Plain turns every styled letter back into the ordinary one, so a word can be restyled without doubling up.
  4. 4The count is strict. Each styled letter counts as two, the larger of the two usual counts, and the total is measured against the 3,000 characters LinkedIn's help page gives for a post, read on 2026-10-13.
  5. 5Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is stored or sent, and no AI model reads it.

What it cannot tell you

  • Screen readers may read the styled letters badly, spelling them out one by one or skipping them. Use them on a few words, never a whole post.
  • Search inside LinkedIn may not find a word written in styled letters, because to a computer it is a different word.
  • It cannot change how LinkedIn shows a post. The preview is a plain card that shows the layout and the styling, not LinkedIn itself.
  • Letters outside A to Z, such as accented ones, have no styled form in this block and stay as they are.

Questions people ask

Can you use bold text on LinkedIn?

Not as formatting. LinkedIn posts accept plain text only, with no bold or italic button. The bold you see in some posts is made of Unicode letters that look bold, which is what this formatter produces. They paste like any other text.

Is bold Unicode text bad for accessibility?

It can be. Some screen readers read each styled letter by its full Unicode name or skip it, which turns one bold word into noise for a listener. Keep styled letters to a short phrase you want a skimmer to catch, and never style a whole post.

What is the character limit for a LinkedIn post?

LinkedIn's help page says posts can contain up to 3,000 characters. This formatter counts each styled letter as two, the stricter way to count, so a post that fits here is not cut short.

How do I add bullet points to a LinkedIn post?

Type each point on its own line and start it with a symbol such as a dot or an arrow, since LinkedIn has no list button. Select the lines here and pick Dots, Squares, Arrows or Numbers to do it in one step.

How do I remove bold text from a LinkedIn post?

Paste the post here, select the styled words and press Plain. Every styled letter turns back into the ordinary one, and the rest of the post is left alone. Copy the result and paste it over the post when you edit it on LinkedIn.

The short version, if you would rather not run it

A LinkedIn post is plain text. There is no bold button and no italic button, and anything pasted from a document loses its formatting on the way in. The posts that show bold words use a workaround: the Unicode standard has a block of mathematical letters in bold, italic and other styles, and a word spelled in those letters looks styled wherever it appears, because the style is part of each character.

That workaround has a cost, and it falls on the people the post is meant for. To software, a bold A from that block is a different character from an ordinary A. A screen reader may announce it by its long Unicode name or pass over it, and search treats a styled word as a different word. Used on a short phrase, so a skimmer catches the point, the cost is small. Used on a whole post, it locks out readers who rely on assistive technology.

Layout matters more than styling. A post that reads well in a feed has short paragraphs with a blank line between them, and lists that start each point on its own line. Both survive the trip into LinkedIn untouched, because they are ordinary characters, and both help a reader more than bold ever will.

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