diff --git a/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+display/makeLinkString.m b/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+display/makeLinkString.m
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c93cbda4d3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+display/makeLinkString.m
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+%MAKELINKSTRING Creates a hyperlink string if possible.
+
+% Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+% contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+% this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+% The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version
+% 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+% with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+%
+%   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+%
+% Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+% distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+% WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+% implied.  See the License for the specific language governing
+% permissions and limitations under the License.
+
+function link = makeLinkString(opts)
+    arguments
+        opts.HelpTarget(1, 1) string {mustBeNonzeroLengthText}
+        opts.Text(1, 1) string {mustBeNonzeroLengthText}
+        % When displaying heterogeneous arrays, only the name of the 
+        % closest shared ancestor class is displayed in bold. All other
+        % class names are not bolded.
+        opts.BoldFont(1, 1) logical = false
+    end
+
+    if usejava("desktop")
+        if opts.BoldFont
+            link = compose("<a href=""matlab:helpPopup('%s')""" + ...
+                " style=""font-weight:bold"">%s</a>", ...
+                opts.HelpTarget, opts.Text);
+        else
+            link = compose("<a href=""matlab:helpPopup('%s')"">%s</a>", ...
+                opts.HelpTarget, opts.Text);
+        end
+    else
+        link = opts.Text;
+    end
+end
diff --git a/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+test/+display/makeLinkString.m b/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+test/+display/makeLinkString.m
index e99dd7d7848..37daa009160 100644
--- a/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+test/+display/makeLinkString.m
+++ b/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+internal/+test/+display/makeLinkString.m
@@ -25,12 +25,8 @@
         opts.BoldFont(1, 1) logical
     end
         
-    if opts.BoldFont
-        link = compose("<a href=""matlab:helpPopup('%s')""" + ...
-            " style=""font-weight:bold"">%s</a>", ...
-            opts.FullClassName, opts.ClassName);
-    else
-        link = compose("<a href=""matlab:helpPopup('%s')"">%s</a>", ...
-            opts.FullClassName, opts.ClassName);
-    end
+    link = arrow.internal.display.makeLinkString( ...
+        HelpTarget=opts.FullClassName, ...
+        Text=opts.ClassName, ...
+        BoldFont=opts.BoldFont);
 end
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diff --git a/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+tabular/+internal/+display/getSchemaString.m b/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+tabular/+internal/+display/getSchemaString.m
index 724b4873c92..665a9f4ef37 100644
--- a/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+tabular/+internal/+display/getSchemaString.m
+++ b/matlab/src/matlab/+arrow/+tabular/+internal/+display/getSchemaString.m
@@ -26,25 +26,12 @@
     idx = strlength(names) == 0;
     names(idx) = "<empty>";
 
-    if usejava("desktop")
-        % When in desktop mode, the Command Window can interpret HTML tags
-        % to display bold font and hyperlinks.
-        names = compose("<strong>%s</strong>", names);
-        classNames = arrayfun(@(type) string(class(type)), types);
-
-        % Creates a string array with the following form:
-        %  
-        % ["arrow.type.BooleanType" "Boolean" "arrow.type.StringType" "String" ...]
-        %
-        % This string array is passed to the compose call below. The 
-        % format specifier operator supplied to compose contains two 
-        % formatting operators (%s), so compose uses two elements from the
-        % string array (classNameAndIDs) at a time.
-        classNameAndIDs = strings([1 numel(typeIDs) * 2]);
-        classNameAndIDs(1:2:end-1) = classNames;
-        classNameAndIDs(2:2:end) = typeIDs;
-        typeIDs = compose("<a href=""matlab:helpPopup('%s')"" style=""font-weight:bold"">%s</a>", classNameAndIDs);
-    end
+    % When in desktop mode, the Command Window can interpret HTML tags
+    % to display bold font and hyperlinks.
+    names = arrayfun(@arrow.internal.display.boldFontIfPossible, names);
+    classNames = arrayfun(@(type) string(class(type)), types);
+    typeIDs = arrayfun(@(className, typeID) arrow.internal.display.makeLinkString( ...
+        HelpTarget=className, Text=typeID, BoldFont=true), classNames, typeIDs);
 
     text = names + ": " + typeIDs;
     text = strjoin(text, " | ");