How to Post a Carousel on LinkedIn: The PDF Method
Quick answer: here is how to post a carousel on LinkedIn. Upload a PDF as a document. Start a post, choose More, then Add a document (Document on mobile). Pick your PDF, give it a title, write your caption and post. Each page of the PDF becomes a slide people swipe through. LinkedIn has not had a separate carousel button since 2023.
Updated October 2026 · 6 min
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How to post a carousel on LinkedIn from a computer
Five steps. The only one people skip is the title, and it is the one people see first.
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Start a post
On your LinkedIn home page, click Start a post.
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Click More, then Add a document
The More icon sits along the bottom of the post box. Add a document is in that menu.
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Choose your PDF
Choose file, or pull it from Dropbox or Google Drive.
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Give the document a title
LinkedIn asks for one before it will upload. More on this below.
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Write the caption and post
The caption sits above the slides. Click Post.
How do you post a LinkedIn carousel from your phone?
Same idea, slightly different labels. Documents still work from the LinkedIn app.
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Tap Post
At the bottom of the app.
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Tap the More icon, then Document
Choose the PDF from your phone or cloud storage.
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Add a title and tap Next
Same title rule as desktop.
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Write the caption and tap Post
Check the first slide in the preview before you do.
Posting from a company page? Page super admins and content admins can post documents the same way, from the page's own post box.
What happened to the LinkedIn carousel feature?
LinkedIn had a native image carousel for organic posts for a while. It removed it on 14 December 2023, and older carousel posts went with it. Carousel ads were not affected.
The document post stayed. So "a LinkedIn carousel" now means a PDF with one slide per page. Everything that ranks for this question says the same thing, because there is only one way left to do it.
What are the LinkedIn carousel specs?
LinkedIn's limits are generous. The ones that matter are the ones you set yourself.
| Spec | What to use | Source |
|---|---|---|
| File type | PDF. LinkedIn also takes PPT, PPTX, DOC and DOCX, but a PDF keeps your fonts and layout. | LinkedIn Help |
| File size | Up to 100 MB | LinkedIn Help |
| Page count | Up to 300 pages. Use 5 to 10. | LinkedIn Help, then our advice |
| Documents per post | One | LinkedIn Help |
| Page size | Portrait 4:5, such as 1080 x 1350 or 1200 x 1500. Every page the same size. | Our advice. LinkedIn does not publish one. |
| Title | Required. Write it like a headline. | LinkedIn Help |
You can edit the title and caption after posting. You cannot swap the document. A typo on slide 4 means deleting and posting again, so read every slide first.
Checked against LinkedIn's help centre on 12 October 2026.
What should you call the document?
LinkedIn makes you title the document before it uploads. Most people type the first thing that comes to mind, or leave the file name. Which is how "carousel_FINAL_v3.pdf" ends up in front of 2,000 people.
The title shows with the carousel, so treat it as a second headline. Say what the reader gets: "5 questions to ask before you sign a lease" beats "Lease webinar slides".
Keep it short. Not the file name. Not slide one again. Just what the reader gets.
The caption makes the argument, the title names the deck, and slide one makes them swipe.
Where do the slides come from?
This is the part no how-to covers. Every guide starts you on a blank template. You do not need one, because you have already said the carousel out loud.
Here is how one comes together. Say a consultant leaves a two-minute voice note after a client call: "Everyone thinks they need to post every day. They don't. The ones who get work post twice a week and say something specific." That is a whole carousel:
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Slide 1, the hook
"You do not need to post every day."
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Slide 2, the problem
"Daily posting is how people burn out by March."
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Slides 3 to 6, one point each
Twice a week is enough. Specific beats frequent. Answer what clients ask. Same day, same time.
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Slide 7, the recap
"Twice a week. Say something specific. Keep going."
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Slide 8, the ask
"What is the one question your clients ask every week?"
In July our founder, Lucy, published a post written straight from a client call transcript, names removed. It looked like it was flopping. It read exactly like the conversation, and it became the biggest source of website traffic in the next 24 hours. Calls are where the good material is.
Then export it as a PDF. Not as "carousel_FINAL_v3.pdf", ideally.
Can you post the same carousel on Instagram?
Yes, but not the PDF. Instagram carousels take photos and videos, up to 20 in one post. Export each slide as an image at 4:5 and upload them as a set.
Design once at 4:5 and you get both: a PDF for LinkedIn and a set of images for Instagram, from the same slides.
Once it is up, do not post it into the void. Check when your audience is actually on LinkedIn.
Is there a faster way to make LinkedIn carousels?
If you post one carousel a month, the steps above and a free maker are all you need. Honestly.
If you want one every week, Magic Marketer® writes the slides from a call, a voice note or a link, lays them out in your brand, and posts them to LinkedIn as a native document after you approve. No export, no file name to forget. Instagram gets 4:5 slides from the same draft.
Free for 7 days. Cancel anytime before day 7 and you won't be charged. Nothing posts until you say so.
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