LinkedIn Post Formatter: bold, italic, bullets and a feed preview

Type the words between two asterisks, like **Results are out**, or select them and press Bold, and copy the result. The tool swaps the letters for Unicode letters that look bold, which keep their look when pasted. Use them for a short heading or a few words: screen readers may read them badly, and search may not find them.

LinkedIn Help says up to 3,000 characters; for longer text it suggests writing an article. This tool counts characters as you see them, with each line break as one. Styled letters take two storage units each, so if your post is close to the limit and full of bold, keep a margin or switch to plain text.

LinkedIn does not publish it, and it changes with the screen and app version. Our estimate is about three lines: roughly 42 characters a line on a phone and 80 on a computer. The preview shows that cut, so put the point of the post in its first line.

LinkedIn makes a mention when you type @ and pick the person or Page from the list that appears (LinkedIn Help). Text pasted from somewhere else stays plain, even with an @ in front. After pasting, delete each @name, type @ and the first letters again, and pick the right person.

LinkedIn Help only says you add a hashtag by typing # and the word or phrase in your post. Our checklist suggests writing sentences in plain words and grouping hashtags at the end, because hashtags in the middle break up the text. Join multi-word hashtags without spaces or hyphens, such as #BoardResults.