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Format text for LinkedIn

Bold and italic for posts, which LinkedIn keeps.

Please use sparingly: these are not real bold letters but mathematical symbols. Screen readers often read them out one by one or skip them entirely – a post written this way throughout is unusable for blind readers.

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How to do it

  1. Write your post

    Or paste it in.

  2. Mark what should stand out

    Bold, italic or underlined.

  3. Copy and paste

    The characters survive the paste into LinkedIn.

What this is for

LinkedIn has no formatting. A post with bold sub-headings is not really bold: Unicode contains a set of mathematical symbols that look like bold or italic letters, and that is the swap this tool makes.

Two things are worth knowing. Accented letters have no counterpart in these sets and stay as they are. And screen readers often read these characters out one at a time or skip them entirely – so a post written this way throughout is unusable for blind readers. Use it for a heading, not for the whole text.

Common questions

Anywhere Unicode is displayed – so on other networks too. It is characters, not markup.

Yes, in quantity. Screen readers stumble over these characters. Use them sparingly.

Yes, anywhere text is taken over without formatting: X, Instagram profiles, WhatsApp status. These are ordinary characters, not a LinkedIn feature.

Not with this tool. Copy it back and it stays Unicode – the easiest thing is to keep the original before converting.

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