diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sprio.1 b/doc/man/man1/sprio.1
index d7f2476c8261c6ae8103de685826f6e07d8c5149..794a50ea025466045f10cc3ab675436cbf5d763f 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sprio.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sprio.1
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ Display the normalized priority factors for the selected jobs.
 
 .TP
 \fB\-o <output_format>\fR, \fB\-\-format=<output_format>\fR
-Specify the information to be displayed, its size and position
-(right or left justified).
-The default formats with various options are
+Specify the information to be displayed, its size and position (right
+or left justified).  The default formats when all factors have been
+asigned non-zero weights are
 
 .RS
 .TP 15