How to keep bold and italic when pasting into LinkedIn
- Write and format your post in Google Docs, Word, Notion or any editor with a bold button.
- Select it, copy (Ctrl/⌘+C), and paste into the box above.
- Check the converted text, pick a bullet and bold style, then press Copy formatted text.
- Paste into LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Threads or Facebook. The formatting stays because it’s now part of the characters.
How it works
When you copy from a document, your browser puts two versions on the clipboard: formatted HTML and plain text. Plain-text boxes like LinkedIn’s take the plain version, so the bold is lost. This page reads the HTML version instead, works out which words were bold, italic, struck through, monospaced or in a list, and rewrites them with Unicode characters that carry the style: 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤, 𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙘 and 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎.
It handles each editor’s quirks. Google Docs marks bold with inline styles inside a wrapper that claims to be bold but isn’t; Word sends lists as paragraphs with its own bullet glyphs. Both are read correctly. Colours, font sizes, images and links have no plain-text equivalent, so only their text is kept.
Use formatting sparingly
Unicode bold looks like bold, but software reads it as symbols: LinkedIn search won’t match it and screen readers can stumble over it. Bold the hook and a heading or two, keep names, keywords and hashtags plain, and check the result in the LinkedIn text formatter’s preview if you want to see where “…see more” cuts in. For lists without a document, the bullet point generator is quicker.