Format your LinkedIn post with bold, strikethrough, italic text styles and more!
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Whether you’re writing a new post or formatting an existing one to make it visually appealing and attract more engagement, Taplio simplifies the process.
How to Format Your LinkedIn Posts With Taplio
1. Write or copy your LinkedIn post.
2. Select the words, sentences, or paragraphs that you want to format.
3. Select how you want your text to look. You can mix fonts, styles, and effects.
4. Ensure the formatted text fits the message you want to share.
5. Click on Copy to clipboard.
Why Should You Format the Text in Your LinkedIn Posts?
Formatting your LinkedIn posts can boost your engagement rates. Here’s why:
- Formatted posts look better. Well-formatted texts can make your LinkedIn posts visually appealing, which will make it much more likely to catch your connection’s attention.
- Highlights the essential parts. Bold, italicized, or underlined words or sentences help you emphasize and communicate your message efficiently.
- Improves readability. Formatted LinkedIn text makes it easier for readers to scan and understand your post faster.
- Creates your brand identity. Using similar formats for your LinkedIn posts helps reinforce your personal or brand identity on LinkedIn, making it easier for your audience to recognize and engage with your posts.
- Makes your post look professional. Consistent formatting is key to presenting your content in the best way.
- Adds emphasis. Formatting adds context to the text in your post by highlighting specific areas.
- Highlights crucial information. Formatting ensures that your post catches your audience’s attention where you want.
The Best Ways to Format Your LinkedIn Text
There are numerous ways to format your posts for the best impact. You can create and label the text into sections with headings. You can also highlight the most important keywords and ideas by putting the text in bold, underlined, or italics. You can create lists to share examples, illustrate your idea, or make the post easy to follow.
Here are the best practices for formatting your LinkedIn post:
1. Start with a hook. Begin with a compelling first sentence to grab attention. This will determine whether readers will click “See more” to read the full post. To write the best hook make sure you format it well. Our tip: make sure that your sentence length is staggered.
2. Use short paragraphs. Break your post into bite-sized paragraphs to make it easier to read and digest. Add lots of spacing between the lines where it’s relevant. The goal is to make your text very easy to skim.
3. Incorporate bullet points or lists. Use bullet points or numbered lists to organize information clearly. This format is excellent for lists of tips, steps in a process, or key highlights.
4. Add a personal touch. Use storytelling elements to make your post relatable. Share personal experiences or insights, and keep them professional. Recently, we have seen a rise in personal content on LinkedIn, where people share snaps of their personal lives, too.
5. Use emojis. They will make your post visually appealing and break up text.
6. Highlight key points. Use spacing, line breaks, or special characters like asterisks (*) to emphasize important ideas or statements. Lists (in numbers or bullet points and ascending or descending order) are very good for getting more engagement too! If you want to stop the people skimming and highlight a specific word or line, change up the formatting styles unexpectedly.
7. Include hashtags. Use relevant hashtags to increase the visibility of your post. However, don’t overuse them; 3-5 well-chosen hashtags are usually sufficient.
8. Incorporate a Call to Action (CTA). Encourage engagement by asking questions, inviting comments, or prompting specific actions such as visiting a link or sharing the post. Make sure your format your CTA in a way that it stands out in the post (use bold text or spacing).
9. Watch your length. Posts between 50 and 150 words tend to perform well. Ensure your post is concise yet informative. By keeping your sentences consice and straight to the point, you optimize your post for mobiles.
10. Visual elements. Include an image, video, infographic, or meme to accompany your text. Visuals can significantly increase engagement.
11. Check for typos. Grammatical errors can kill even the best post. Before posting, make sure your message is clear and free from grammatical errors, which can impact your professionalism.
How to Make Your LinkedIn Text Bold?
Making your text bold in a LinkedIn post can enhance engagement because it draws attention to key points, making important information stand out in a quick-scrolling environment. This visual distinction helps readers quickly identify and retain the main message of your post, increasing the likelihood of interaction.
However, LinkedIn doesn’t natively support bold text in posts. Still, you can achieve bold formatting by using third-party tools like Taplio that convert your text into bold styling.
Here’s how to bold your LinkedIn text:
1. Go to Taplio’s Free LinkedIn Post Formatter
2. Type in your text and select the words or sentences you want to bold
3. Press on B below and copy it to the clipboard
4. Paste it and share it on your LinkedIn
Don't Over-Format Your LinkedIn Post
While LinkedIn text formatting can do wonders for your engagement and increase your connections, it’s important not to overdo it. Here is why:
- It could hurt search results. Formatted text isn’t searchable within LinkedIn. Don’t format information you want others to find through LinkedIn search. This includes work experience, skills, education, , interest, jobs, etc.
- It might impact accessibility. Complex formatting can make your content less accessible to people using screen readers or who have visual impairments.
- It may not display correctly. Your LinkedIn followers could miss your message’s important info if their device or browser doesn’t correctly display formatted text.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, our LinkedIn Text Formatter is 100% free, no surprises!
No. You can format as many posts as you want.
You can use this tool to format text for your LinkedIn headline, About section, or comments.
The short answer is yes! Taplio has more free tools to make your LinkedIn posts stand out and help you expand your network. You can try:
