Co-formatter — Built-in Formatting for LinkedIn: Bold, Italic & Lists

Co-formatter — Built-in Formatting for LinkedIn (Bold, Italic, Underline & Lists) Make your LinkedIn posts and comments stand out. Co-formatter adds a clean, native-looking formatting toolbar right inside LinkedIn's post editor and comment boxes — so you can write bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, monospace, and bullet or numbered lists in seconds. No copy-paste from another website. No sign-up. No cost. LinkedIn doesn't let you format text. Co-formatter does — instantly, where you already write. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ WHY CO-FORMATTER? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Plain LinkedIn posts scroll right past readers. Formatted posts get noticed. Bold hooks, italic emphasis, and clean bullet lists make your writing easier to read and far more likely to stop the scroll, earn likes, and grow your reach. Most "LinkedIn text formatter" tools force you to leave LinkedIn, type in a separate website, then copy and paste the result back. Co-formatter skips all of that. It lives inside LinkedIn, so you just select your text and click — the formatting appears right in the editor, exactly like a built-in feature. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Bold, Italic & Bold-Italic — add emphasis that pops in the feed ✅ Underline & Strikethrough — highlight or cross out text ✅ Monospace & Script (cursive) — eye-catching, on-brand styles ✅ Bullet, Numbered, Lettered & Emoji lists — structure your posts cleanly ✅ UPPERCASE, lowercase & Title Case — fix or restyle text in one click ✅ Clear formatting — instantly revert back to plain text ✅ Live character counter — stay within LinkedIn's limit ✅ Works in posts AND comments — format everywhere you write on LinkedIn ✅ Keyboard shortcuts — Ctrl/Cmd+B for bold, Ctrl/Cmd+I for italic, and more ✅ Light & dark mode — automatically matches your LinkedIn theme ✅ 100% free — no account, no subscription, no paywall ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ HOW IT WORKS (3 SECONDS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Click "Start a post" or open a comment box on LinkedIn. 2. Select the text you want to format. 3. Click Bold, Italic, a list, or any tool in the toolbar — done. The toolbar appears automatically at the top of the LinkedIn editor. Your selection stays highlighted so you can stack styles (for example, bold + italic). Use it on desktop Chrome while writing posts, comments, and replies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Bold — Ctrl/Cmd + B • Italic — Ctrl/Cmd + I • Bold-Italic — Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + B • Underline — Ctrl/Cmd + U • Strikethrough — Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + X • Monospace — Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + M • Bullet list — Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + 8 • Numbered list — Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + 7 • Clear formatting — Ctrl/Cmd + \ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Content creators & personal-brand builders who want scroll-stopping posts • Job seekers making their profile, "Open to Work" posts, and comments stand out • Recruiters & hiring managers writing clear, skimmable job posts • Founders, marketers & sales pros boosting engagement and reach • Anyone who wants their LinkedIn writing to look professional and polished ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ PRIVACY FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Co-formatter runs entirely in your browser. It does not collect, store, or transmit any of your data. There are no accounts, no tracking, and no network requests — your text never leaves the page. The extension only runs on LinkedIn. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ GOOD TO KNOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LinkedIn stores posts as plain text, so "bold" and "italic" are created using special Unicode characters that look like styled letters. This is the same technique every LinkedIn formatting tool uses, and it works across desktop and mobile feeds. Because these are stylized characters, use them for emphasis and headings rather than entire paragraphs for the best readability and accessibility. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q: How do I write bold text on LinkedIn? A: Install Co-formatter, open the LinkedIn post or comment editor, select your text, and click the Bold button (or press Ctrl/Cmd+B). Bold text appears instantly. Q: Does it work in LinkedIn comments? A: Yes. The formatting toolbar appears in both the post composer and comment boxes. Q: Do I need to copy and paste from another website? A: No. Co-formatter works directly inside LinkedIn — select, click, and your text is formatted in place. Q: Is it free? A: Yes, completely free. No sign-up, no subscription, no hidden costs. Q: Will my formatting show on mobile? A: Yes. The formatted text is regular Unicode, so it displays on the LinkedIn mobile app and website too. Q: Does it collect my data? A: No. Everything runs locally in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Q: How do I remove formatting? A: Select the text and click "Clear formatting" to revert it to plain text. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ GET STARTED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Add Co-formatter to Chrome, head to LinkedIn, and start a post. Select your text, click a style, and watch your LinkedIn content go from plain to polished — in seconds. Format smarter. Stand out. Grow on LinkedIn.