How to Create LinkedIn Carousel Posts

This step-by-step guide walks you through how to create a LinkedIn carousel post—from designing your slides and combining them into one PDF to uploading and publishing the final post on LinkedIn. Perfect for marketers, creators, and brands looking to boost engagement with swipeable content.

Design Your Slides

Create your design for the LinkedIn carousel post.
Save the design as a PDF.

Open Adobe Acrobat

Go to Adobe Acrobat to combine all your PDFs.
If you’re not already on the page, click on ‘Create’ at the top and select ‘Combine Files’.
Click on ‘Add Files’ to upload your design.

Arrange Files

Rearrange the files in the correct order if necessary.

Combine Files

Once arranged, click on ‘Combine’ to merge the PDFs.

Save Your Combined PDF

Go to ‘File’ and select ‘Save As’. Save your combined PDF in the desired location and label it appropriately.

Choose “Add Documents” Post Option

Go to LinkedIn, click on ‘Create’, then ‘Start a Post’. Click ‘More’, then ‘Add Documents’. Choose the file you’ve created.

Preview and Finalize

Preview your carousel post, add a title, and click ‘Done’. Add your caption and hit ‘Post’.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

My slides ended up in the wrong order — how do I fix it?

Reorder them in Adobe Acrobat before clicking Combine. That arrange step is the only place to set the sequence; once the PDFs merge, that's the order readers swipe through.

What format do the slides have to be in?

PDF. Save each slide as a PDF, then merge them into one file with Acrobat's Combine Files — LinkedIn gets a single combined document, not individual slides.

Is there a carousel button somewhere on LinkedIn?

Not in this flow — the carousel goes up as a document. Start a post, click More, choose Add Documents, and select your combined PDF, then preview the carousel before posting.