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LinkedIn Text Formatter
Write your post, select words to make them bold, italic or underlined, and see roughly where LinkedIn will cut it off before you copy it.
Select text and click a style; click it again to remove it. List buttons work on the lines your selection touches. Clear formatting works on the selection, or the whole post if nothing is selected.
Your Name
Your headline
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Readers see only the part above “…see more” until they click, so put your hook there. LinkedIn doesn’t publish the exact cut-off: it is roughly 210 characters or 3 lines, whichever comes first, and varies with screen width.
332 / 3,000 counting each styled letter and most emoji as 2 (293 characters if each counts once). The bar uses the larger number so the post is sure to fit.
Use styled text sparingly
These aren’t real fonts. Each styled letter is a separate Unicode character from a mathematical alphabet. Screen readers may spell them out letter by letter, announce them as math symbols or skip them, so a post written all in bold can’t be read by some of your audience. Search and hashtags treat styled words as different strings, so a styled keyword won’t be found. Save styles for a heading or a few key words, and never use them inside hashtags or names you want people to find. Accented letters (é, ñ), other alphabets and emoji have no styled versions and stay as they are.
Formatted on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Works in your browser. No account needed.
Frequently asked questions
How do you make text bold or italic on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn’s post editor has no bold or italic buttons (only long-form articles do). The workaround is Unicode: it includes separate characters that look like bold, italic and monospace Latin letters, originally meant for mathematics. This formatter swaps the letters you select for those characters. The result is plain text that shows up styled wherever you paste it.
Does the same bold text work on Facebook, Instagram and X?
Yes. Facebook and Instagram have no formatting controls in posts either, and the styled characters paste into posts, captions, comments and bios unchanged. X shows them too, but it counts every styled letter as 2 characters, so a bold post uses up the 280 limit about twice as fast. The X tab shows that weighted count.
Is styled text bad for accessibility or search?
It can be. Screen readers may spell styled characters out letter by letter, call them mathematical symbols or skip them. Search engines and LinkedIn’s own search treat them as different characters from normal letters. Keep styles to a short heading or a few key words and write the rest normally. Never style a hashtag: it will no longer match the real tag.
Where does LinkedIn cut a post off with “…see more”?
LinkedIn doesn’t publish an exact number, and it depends on screen width. On desktop the feed shows roughly the first 210 characters or 3 lines, whichever comes first. On mobile it’s closer to 140 characters. The preview uses those approximate values, so put your hook in the opening lines.
How long can a LinkedIn post be?
The text of a LinkedIn post can be up to 3,000 characters. Styled letters are stored as two UTF-16 code units each, like most emoji, and some counters count them twice. To be safe, the limit bar counts them as 2 and also shows the count with each character counted once.
Why do some letters stay unstyled, and can I undo the formatting?
Unicode only has styled versions of the basic letters A–Z and a–z and, for most styles, the digits 0–9. Accented letters such as é or ñ, other alphabets, punctuation and emoji have no styled versions and stay as they are. Clear formatting turns styled letters back into ordinary ones and removes underline and strikethrough. Undo reverts the last change.
About this tool
This LinkedIn text formatter adds the formatting LinkedIn’s post box leaves out: bold, italic, bold italic, monospace, underline and strikethrough, plus bullet lists with •, ▪, ✅ or → and numbered lists. You select text in the editor and click a style, much like a word processor, and a post-card preview shows the result with hashtags and mentions highlighted. The same text works as Facebook bold text and as Instagram bio fonts, because the styling is built into the characters rather than added by the app.
Behind the buttons, each letter A–Z, a–z and digit is swapped for its counterpart in Unicode’s Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Bold and italic use the sans-serif alphabets by default, since they sit closest to LinkedIn’s own font, and a checkbox switches to serif letters. Underline and strikethrough add a combining low line (U+0332) or long stroke overlay (U+0336) after each character. Emoji and line breaks are left alone. Clear formatting reverses all of it and leaves accents and emoji as they were. Everything runs in your browser, so drafts never leave your device.
The preview helps with the part of a post most people actually see. LinkedIn collapses posts behind “…see more” after roughly 210 characters or 3 lines on desktop, and less on a phone. The card shows where that falls so you can make the opening count. The character counter checks the 3,000-character post limit, and the Facebook, Instagram and X tabs show those limits, including X’s rule that styled letters count twice.
Use styled text as seasoning rather than the whole meal. Screen readers can struggle with these characters, and LinkedIn search and hashtags treat styled words as different words. A bold first line or one emphasised phrase helps a post stand out. A post written entirely in bold is harder to read for everyone and can’t be found by search. Keep hashtags, names and keywords in plain text.
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