LinkedIn document post checklist: slides, context and accessibility
Prepare a document carousel for LinkedIn, review its reading order and publish it with a useful caption and a clear destination.
By the Postly Team
Before you start
Use a final document and the correct connected profile or organization. An organic document post, a multi-image post and a paid carousel ad are different formats.
Prepare and review the release
- Write the document's argument before designing slides. Start with the reader's problem, show evidence or a worked process, and end with one next action.
- Export and open the actual document that will be uploaded. Check page order, embedded fonts, readable labels, contrast and links; include essential information in text rather than only in pictures.
- Select the LinkedIn destination and document option available in Postly. Give the document a meaningful title and write a caption that explains who it helps without repeating every slide.
- Review the published document on a small screen. Check whether a reader can understand the example without magnifying each page and whether the caption's destination is useful.
Worked example
A consulting team turns a migration retrospective into six pages: the original problem, the old process, the new process, a before-and-after table, a limitation, and a checklist. Its caption invites readers to use the checklist rather than claiming every company will achieve the same result.
If something goes wrong
- Unreadable slides: increase text size in the source document and export again.
- Wrong author: verify the selected personal or organization destination before release.
- Document upload fails: inspect the file and upload result; a document must finish uploading before the post can reference it.