diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8801356188..47ef68448d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ makepanda\makepanda.bat --everything --installer --msvc-version=14.3 --windows-s
 When the build succeeds, it will produce an .exe file that you can use to
 install Panda3D on your system.
 
-Note: you may choose to remove --no-eigen and build with Eigen support in
+**Note:** you may choose to remove `--no-eigen` and build with Eigen support in
 order to improve runtime performance.  However, this will cause the build to
 take hours to complete, as Eigen is a heavily template-based library, and the
-the MSVC compiler does not perform well under these circumstances.
+MSVC compiler does not perform well under those circumstances.
 
 Linux
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