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Your summary and every description field accept formatted text. Use it to make achievements scannable: a bulleted list under each job, a bold phrase where it matters, a link to a project. This page covers the formatting toolbar, Markdown shortcuts, links, and the Improve button.

The formatting toolbar

Click into a summary or description and a toolbar appears under the text. It stays out of the way until the text has focus, and clicking its buttons doesn’t move your cursor.
Focused Summary field with Bold, Italic, Underline, Link, list, Text alignment, More formatting and Improve controls

The current formatting toolbar under Summary

A button is highlighted when its formatting applies where your cursor is. Under the toolbar, a footer shows a hint for the field and how many characters it holds.

More formatting

More formatting menu with Strikethrough, Code, Highlight, Text color, Text style, Indent, Outdent, Horizontal line and Clear formatting

More formatting holds additional controls and Clear formatting

Keyboard and Markdown shortcuts

The website toolbar is one Tab stop. Use the arrow keys to move between its controls, then Enter or Space to apply formatting to the selection. The alignment and formatting menus keep that selection when they open. Tab leaves the toolbar. You can format without the toolbar: Press Enter for a new bullet, and Enter twice to end the list. Inside a text field, ⌘ Z (Ctrl Z) undoes your typing in that field. Click outside the field, or press Escape, to undo changes across the whole resume.
1

Select the text

Highlight the words you want to link, for example a project name.
2

Select Link

The Link address dialog opens with https:// filled in.
3

Enter the address and confirm

Type or paste the full web address, then select Confirm. The text becomes a link on the page and in the PDF.
Link address dialog with an https:// field, Leave it empty to remove the link, Cancel and Confirm

Enter or remove a link address

To change a link, put your cursor in it and select Link again. To remove it, clear the address (or leave only https://) and select Confirm. Links don’t open when you click them in the editor, so you can click into linked text to edit it.

Keep formatting readable

Use headings, colors and highlights sparingly. Clear section names, left-aligned paragraphs and short bullets make a resume easier to scan. Check contrast and review Check mode before applying; decorative formatting doesn’t guarantee that an applicant tracking system will read the document correctly. To remove unwanted formatting, select the text and choose More formatting → Clear formatting. If an imported table cannot be edited safely, the editor keeps its formatting and shows “Original table formatting is preserved. This content is read-only because it cannot be edited safely.” You can still see it on the page, but you can’t edit it in the text box.

Improving a line with AI

Improve rewrites one line at a time: a single paragraph of your summary or a single bullet.
1

Put your cursor in the line

Click anywhere in the line you want to improve. Improve is unavailable until the cursor is in a line with text.
2

Select Improve and pick a change

Choose Stronger verb, Add a result or Make it shorter, or select Ask for something else…, describe what should change, and select Ask. Add a result first asks what changed because of this line: a number, a time saved, who used it. Type it and select Add, or select I don’t have one yet to have the wording tightened without a result. Results from other lines in the field are never moved onto this one.
3

Approve the destination

Check the named provider, model and shared data, then select Allow this operation. Don’t share cancels the request and leaves your writing unchanged.
4

Review the suggestion

Select Replace to use it, Keep mine to leave your line as it was, or Try another for a different suggestion. If the suggestion adds facts, it asks you to check they’re accurate. If the request fails, the panel says why, and Try again sends the same request again.
The request sends that line, the entire current field and any rewrite instructions to the approved AI provider. In Notes, that includes the entire Notes field. Only that one line changes, and only when you select Replace. If you edit the line while the suggestion is loading, it isn’t applied. Improve needs a tested, enabled AI provider. On the website, Set up AI in the Improve panel lets you connect one without leaving the field. Formatting and manual editing work without AI. See Connecting an AI provider.

On a phone

In a phone browser on screens narrower than 768 pixels, such as phones and small tablets held upright, the toolbar docks to the bottom of the screen, just above the keyboard, with larger buttons. Swipe the formatting buttons sideways to reach every action. Done stays visible at the right; select it to close the keyboard, or tap outside the text box.
Phone-browser description field with formatting controls docked at the bottom and Done beside them

Formatting controls dock while editing in a phone browser

See Editing on a phone or tablet for the rest of the mobile editor.

In the iOS and Android apps

The native toolbar also docks above the keyboard. Swipe to reach Bold, Italic, the two list controls, Link and Text style. Text style contains Underline, Strikethrough, Paragraph and Heading 1–3. Improve selected line and Done stay beside the scrolling controls. Alignment, text color, highlight, code, indentation, horizontal lines and clear formatting aren’t native toolbar actions; use the website for those controls. Existing formatting is kept until you edit it.