LinkedIn Text Formatter
LinkedIn has no bold button and no font picker, so this formatter swaps your letters for look-alike characters that do the job. Type your post once and see it in every style, then copy the one you want into a post, a comment, your headline or your About section. Free, no sign-up, and nothing to sign up for.
Text input
0 / 3,000 characters
Every style appears below, ready to copy.
Post preview
Your name
What you do
Just now
Your post will appear here, styled as you type.
A preview, not LinkedIn. Paste into the post box to see it in your own feed.
Normal
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Bold
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Italic
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Bold Italic
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Underline
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Strikethrough
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Script
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How to use it
- Write or paste your post in the box above.
- Pick the style you want from the boxes below.
- Press Copy on that box.
- Paste straight into LinkedIn — the styling travels with the text.
Quick facts
- Styles
- 6: bold, italic, bold italic, underline, strikethrough and script
- How it works
- each letter is swapped for a look-alike character, so the text stays plain text
- Where it works
- LinkedIn posts, comments, messages, your headline and your About section
- Post limit
- 3,000 characters — a styled letter still counts as one
- Leaves alone
- punctuation, accents, emoji and any script that isn't A–Z
- Sent anywhere?
- the swap happens in your browser; we keep a copy of what you type, and never your files
- Cost
- free, with nothing to sign up for
How it works
- Step 1
Write or paste your post
Put your post in the box on the left. The preview beside it shows roughly how the words will sit in a feed, and the counter keeps an eye on LinkedIn's limit.
- Step 2
Pick a style
Your text appears below in every style at once — bold, italic, bold italic, underline, strikethrough and script. Read them side by side and take the one that suits the post.
- Step 3
Copy and paste it in
Use Copy on any of the boxes below to take that version, then paste straight into LinkedIn. Nothing else is needed: what you paste is ordinary text and arrives looking the same.
Pro tips
- One emphasised line per post does the job. A whole post in bold is harder to read, not more persuasive.
- Screen readers can struggle with these characters — they may read them out one by one, or skip them. Never put the only copy of something important in a styled line.
- LinkedIn's search does not match styled letters, so keep your job title, your company and the words people would search for plain.
- Bold has digits. Italic, bold italic and script do not, so numbers in those styles stay as ordinary numbers.
- Underline and strikethrough work by drawing a mark on each character, so they sit well in a sentence but can look cramped over a long paragraph.
- Paste into a LinkedIn comment or your headline too — it is plain text, so anywhere that takes text takes this.
FAQ
How do I bold text in a LinkedIn post?
Type or paste your post into the box above, then press Copy on the Bold box below and paste the result into LinkedIn. There is no bold button in LinkedIn itself, so what this does is swap each letter for a bold-looking Unicode character. The post stays plain text, which is why it survives the paste.
Can you make text bold on LinkedIn?
Yes, but not with a formatting button — LinkedIn does not have one. The only way is to paste in characters that already look bold, which is what this formatter produces. It works the same way in posts, comments, messages, your headline and your About section.
How do I bold text in my LinkedIn About section or headline?
Exactly as you would for a post: format the line here, copy it, then paste it into the About or headline field while editing your profile. Those fields take plain text like everything else on LinkedIn, so the styled characters carry over. Keep your job title and company plain, though — profile search matches the real letters.
How does the LinkedIn text formatter work?
LinkedIn posts are plain text, so there is no bold button to press. This tool swaps each letter for a different character that happens to look bold, italic or script — they come from a part of Unicode meant for mathematics. Because the result is still plain text, you can paste it anywhere LinkedIn takes text and it keeps its shape.
What formatting styles are available?
Six, plus the original: bold, italic, bold italic, underline, strikethrough and script. Bold and italic are the two most people reach for; script suits a sign-off; strikethrough is useful for a before-and-after price, or a correction you want to leave visible rather than hide.
Can I mix different formatting styles in one post?
Yes, by copying from more than one box. Take a bold line from the Bold box and an italic one from the Italic box, and assemble them in your post — anything you do not paste in stays plain. More than two styles in one post usually reads as clutter rather than emphasis.
Will the formatted text work on all devices?
Almost everywhere. These are standard Unicode characters, so current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS all draw them. A very old phone or an unusual font can fall back to an empty box for the rarer styles — script is the most likely to miss — which is one more reason to keep styling to a line rather than a whole post.
Can I save formatted text for later?
Not on this page — it keeps nothing, so closing the tab clears it. Copy the styled text into your notes if you only need it once. If you write posts regularly, schedule it in iHatePosting instead: the styled characters travel with the text, so a post you draft today publishes looking exactly the same next week.
Is this really bold text?
No, and the difference matters. Nothing about your post is marked as bold; every letter has simply been replaced by a look-alike character. It shows up the same to a reader, but to anything reading the text as data — a screen reader, LinkedIn's search, a copy into a spreadsheet — those are not the letters A to Z.
Will screen readers read it properly?
Often not. Depending on the reader and its settings, a styled word may be read out character by character, described as symbols, or skipped altogether. Use it for a line of emphasis, and never for the only copy of something a reader has to have — your name, a date, a link or a call to action.
Can people still find my post in search?
Not by the styled words. LinkedIn's search matches the characters in your post, and a styled letter is a different character from the plain one, so a search for your company name will not match it if you styled it. Keep anything you want found — your role, your company, the terms people search for — in ordinary text.
Where can I use the formatted text?
Anywhere on LinkedIn that takes text: posts, comments, replies, direct messages, your headline, your About section and your experience entries. It works outside LinkedIn too — the characters are ordinary Unicode, so they survive a paste into most apps.
Does it work on the LinkedIn mobile app?
Yes, and you do not need the app to make it: format the text here in your phone's browser, copy it, then paste into the LinkedIn app's post box. Nothing about the styling depends on where you paste it from, because the characters are part of the text itself.
Why are my numbers not bold?
Only the bold style has digits. Unicode never published italic, bold italic or script numbers, so this tool leaves them as ordinary digits instead of substituting something that does not match. That is deliberate: a row of mismatched numerals looks like a mistake.
What happens to emoji, accents and other alphabets?
They pass through untouched. Only A to Z, a to z and — for bold — 0 to 9 have look-alikes, so an emoji, an accented letter like é, punctuation, and any non-Latin script such as Gujarati or Japanese come out exactly as you typed them.
Does styling count against LinkedIn's character limit?
It counts the same. A styled letter is still one character, so a 3,000-character post is 3,000 characters whether it is styled or not. The counter under the box tracks it as you type.
Is this allowed by LinkedIn?
You are typing ordinary characters, which is not something LinkedIn forbids, and plenty of people do it. What LinkedIn does judge is whether a post is worth reading. Styling every line tends to read as shouting, so use it sparingly — that is a reach argument rather than a rules one.
Is anything I type sent to you?
The swap happens in your browser, in the page you already have open, so nothing is uploaded and no account is attached. We do keep a copy of the text you type, up to 500 characters, so we can see what people use the formatter for.
Can I schedule the formatted post?
Yes — paste the styled text straight into iHatePosting's composer and schedule it like any other post. The characters travel with the text, so what you see here is what publishes, and the same post can go out to your other networks at the same time.
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