diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6dfb311ab5ce482a52ed2536b8db3fad1f2bbf2f..6f7fb7888bfd98209caac93cd5f0850eed60a33c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Fix a couple of issues with scontrol reconfig and adding nodes to
     slurm.conf.  Rebooting daemons after adding nodes to the slurm.conf
     is highly recommended.
+ -- Fixed sacct.1 and srun.1 manual pages which contains a hyphen where
+    a minus sign for options was intended.
 
 * Changes in Slurm 2.6.6
 ========================
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sacct.1 b/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
index 5f817ba93a12a903232672f6e864ceb1be67f19a..ff3b54e60eebd0f118eba9657b98d5af19c80002 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ Job terminated due to failure of one or more allocated nodes.
 Job is awaiting resource allocation. Note for a job to be selected in this state
 it must have "EligibleTime" in the requested time interval or different
 from "Unknown". The "EligibleTime" is displayed by the "scontrol show job" command.
-For example jobs submitted with the "--hold" option will have "EligibleTime=Unknown"
+For example jobs submitted with the "\-\-hold" option will have "EligibleTime=Unknown"
 as they are pending indefinitely.
 .TP
 \fBPR  PREEMPTED\fR
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/srun.1 b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
index 07ca40af42a57adea1c243fc6b95f5454e46f0f2..4a9e743f4fdd4e71df73a13122891aa561b5d8c2 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/srun.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ For use with OpenMPI.
 .B pmi2
 To enable PMI2 support. The PMI2 support in Slurm works only if the MPI
 implementation supports it, in other words if the MPI has the PMI2
-interface implemented. The --mpi=pmi2 will load the library
+interface implemented. The \-\-mpi=pmi2 will load the library
 lib/slurm/mpi_pmi2.so which provides the server side functionality but
 the client side must implement PMI2_Init() and the other interface calls.
 .TP