LinkedIn Text Formatter: bold, italic and line breaks that stick

LinkedIn posts have no bold button. Type or paste your post here, select the words, tap Bold, then copy it into LinkedIn. The words use Unicode bold letters, which LinkedIn shows as they are. LinkedIn articles do have real bold and italic in their editor.

After about 210 characters or 3 lines in the feed, whichever comes first, and a little earlier on a phone. LinkedIn does not publish the exact point, and it changes with the screen. The preview here marks it, so you can put your hook before it.

3,000 characters. A bold or italic letter counts as 2 here, since that is how most apps count those Unicode letters, so a heavily styled post fills up faster.

It can. Unicode bold and italic are maths symbols, not styled letters: screen readers may skip them or read each one out, and search may not match them to the plain word. Unicode itself says they are not meant for styling ordinary text. Use them for a few words, never a whole post.

Yes. ChatGPT and Claude write in Markdown, so a pasted post shows **stars** and # signs on LinkedIn. Paste it here and tap the button to turn **bold** into bold, *italic* into italic, headings into bold lines and dashes into bullets.

Yes. LinkedIn keeps the line breaks and empty lines you paste. Copy from here and paste straight into a new post.