A free LinkedIn text formatter that makes bold, italic, underlined and listed text for your posts, keeps accented letters and hashtags working, and shows the post as LinkedIn will.
Select words and press a style, or turn a style on and type. Links, #hashtags and @mentions stay plain, so they keep working.
Write your post
How LinkedIn shows it
Your first line in every style
Your first line in each style, ready to copy. Script, gothic and double-struck suit a name or a short heading, not a paragraph.
This free LinkedIn text formatter turns plain text into bold, italic, underlined and struck-through text. Paste it into any LinkedIn post, comment, headline or About section.
Select the words, press a style, copy. That's it.
It also keeps accented letters together, leaves your links and hashtags working, and counts the way LinkedIn counts.
Here's what a LinkedIn text formatter is, how to use it, what formatting costs you, and the letters no formatter can bold.
What is a LinkedIn text formatter?
A LinkedIn text formatter is a tool that makes bold, italic and other styled text you can paste into LinkedIn.
You need one because LinkedIn's post box has no formatting of its own. I checked it on September 26, 2026: its only buttons are Proofread, emoji, media and Post, and ⌘B does nothing.
So the bold you see in other people's posts isn't formatting at all. It's a different set of letters.
How to bold text on LinkedIn
The keyboard works too: ⌘B for bold, ⌘I for italic and ⌘U for underline (Ctrl on Windows).
Press Bold on bold text to take it off. Press Bold, then Italic, for bold italic.
How LinkedIn formatting works
Unicode, the standard behind all digital text, has full alphabets of look-alike letters. They were made for math: bold, italic, script, double-struck and more.
A formatter swaps each letter for its twin.
"Hello" becomes 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼: 5 different characters that happen to look bold.
LinkedIn treats them as ordinary text. That's why the style survives the paste.
The same text works anywhere that takes Unicode: X, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, and your LinkedIn headline and About section.
Accents, and the letters that can't be bold
Those look-alike alphabets only cover A to Z, a to z and 0 to 9. There's no bold é, no bold ö, no bold ñ.
A formatter that stops there leaves a plain letter in the middle of a bold word: "Göteborg" comes out bold with a thin ö in the middle.
This one splits an accented letter into its letter and its mark. It bolds the letter and puts the mark back on top, so a bold ö is a bold o with its 2 dots.
That covers almost every accented letter in the languages my site is in. A few letters have no styled form at all, and the tool names them instead of leaving a gap:
| Language | Styled | Stays plain |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech | Every accented letter | None |
| German | ä ö ü | ß |
| French | Every accented letter but 2 | æ œ |
| Danish and Norwegian | å | æ ø |
| Polish | ą ć ę ń ó ś ź ż | ł |
| Turkish | ç ğ İ ö ş ü | ı |
| Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai | None: Unicode has no bold or italic for these alphabets | Underline and strikethrough still work |
What formatted text costs you
Styled letters are a trick, and tricks have a price. Here's what it is, so you can decide where it's worth paying:
- Characters. LinkedIn counts every styled letter as 2 characters toward its 3,000 limit. I tested it in LinkedIn's post box: 1,510 bold letters were over the limit.
- Search. A bold word is made of different characters from the plain word, so a search may not find it. Keep the words you want to be found for plain.
- Hashtags and mentions. A styled #hashtag is only letters to LinkedIn, so it stops being a hashtag. This tool leaves links, #hashtags and @mentions plain, even inside a bold paragraph.
- Screen readers. Assistive tech often reads styled letters out one by one, or skips them. Keep styling to a few words, never a paragraph.
Most emoji count as 2 as well. The count under the box follows LinkedIn's rule.
Where to use formatting on LinkedIn
- The hook. A bold first line is where formatting earns its keep, because the first lines are what everyone sees. My LinkedIn post preview shows exactly where LinkedIn cuts your post.
- Your headline. A styled word or a separator stands out in comments and search results. Keep your main keyword plain.
- The About section. Bold subheads make a long About section easy to scan.
- Lists. Type "- " at the start of a line and it turns into a bullet. The list buttons put •, →, ✅ or numbers at the start of each line.
Remove formatting from text
Got bold or fancy text from somewhere else? Paste it in, select it and press Remove formatting.
The letters come back plain, accents included. It reads the styles other formatters make too: circled letters, full-width letters and small capitals.
Every style, for a name or a heading
The style grid under the tool shows your first line in 13 styles, from bold to double-struck, each with a Copy button.
Script, gothic and double-struck read slowly. They suit a name or a short heading, not a paragraph.
When the post is ready, count it with the LinkedIn character counter. Or turn it into a carousel with the LinkedIn carousel generator.
LinkedIn Text Formatter FAQs
Questions about formatting LinkedIn posts? Here's what to know.
A LinkedIn text formatter is a tool that turns plain text into bold, italic, underlined or struck-through text you can paste into LinkedIn. LinkedIn's post box has no formatting of its own, so the formatter swaps your letters for look-alike Unicode letters, which LinkedIn shows as they are.
To bold text on LinkedIn, type or paste your post into the LinkedIn text formatter, select the words and press Bold, then copy the result into your LinkedIn post. The bold stays because the letters themselves are bold Unicode characters.
No, LinkedIn's post box has no bold button. When I checked it on September 26, 2026, its only buttons were Proofread, emoji, media and Post, and ⌘B did nothing. Bold text on LinkedIn is always made with Unicode letters, the way this formatter makes it.
Yes, you can bold accented letters like å, ö, é and ñ with this formatter: it bolds the letter and keeps its accent on top. A few letters have no styled form in Unicode at all (æ, ø, œ, ß, ł and ı), and the tool names them so you know they stay plain.
Bold text shows up as boxes when a device has no font with those Unicode letters, which happens mostly on old phones and computers. Plain bold and italic are the styles that show on the most devices; script, gothic and double-struck are the likeliest to show as boxes.
Yes, every bold or italic letter counts as 2 characters toward LinkedIn's 3,000 limit, and so do most emoji. I tested it in LinkedIn's post box: 1,000 emoji and 1,000 letters fit exactly, and 1 more letter was over. The count under the formatter counts the same way.
Yes, a bold hashtag stops working on LinkedIn, because a styled #hashtag is only letters to LinkedIn. This formatter leaves links, #hashtags and @mentions plain even when you bold the paragraph they're in, so they keep working.
Screen readers often read bold LinkedIn text out letter by letter, or skip it, because the letters are math symbols to them. Keep styling to a few words, like a hook or a heading, so everyone can still read your post.
Yes, formatted text from this tool works on X, Instagram, Threads and Facebook too, because it's made of ordinary Unicode characters. On X, a styled letter counts as 2 of your 280 characters, the way it does on LinkedIn.
To remove bold formatting, paste the text into the LinkedIn text formatter, select it and press Remove formatting. The letters come back plain with their accents, including styles from other formatters, like circled and full-width letters.
The LinkedIn text formatter is for anyone who writes on LinkedIn: founders, creators, consultants, recruiters and marketers who want a bold hook, a clear list or a standout headline without breaking their hashtags.
For LinkedIn posts, the LinkedIn post preview shows where LinkedIn cuts your post on a phone and a laptop, the LinkedIn character counter checks the 3,000 limit, and the LinkedIn carousel generator turns a post into a PDF carousel. See all my free tools.
No, what you type in the LinkedIn text formatter never leaves your browser: the formatting runs on your device. Your draft is kept in this browser only, so a refresh doesn't lose it, and Clear removes it.
Navid Moazzez
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