diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py
index 61ec47ef62..7692a8aba7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py
@@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ class ConfigWidget(ConfigWidgetBase, Ui_Form):
                   '<a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/template_lang.html">'
                   'tutorial</a> on using templates.') +
                  '</p><p>' +
+                _('If you want to color a field based on tags, then right-click '
+                  'in an empty  template line and choose tags wizard. '
+                  'It will build a template for you. You can later edit that '
+                  'template with the same wizard. If you edit it by hand, the '
+                  'wizard might not work or might restore old values.') +
+                 '</p><p>' +
                 _('The template must evaluate to one of the color names shown '
                   'below. You can use any legal template expression. '
                   'For example, you can set the title to always display in '
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.ui b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.ui
index ad990a1586..31fa0df234 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.ui
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.ui
@@ -419,14 +419,14 @@ then the tags will be displayed each on their own line.</string>
        <item row="1" column="0">
         <widget class="QLabel" name="label">
          <property name="text">
-          <string>Column name</string>
+          <string>Column to color</string>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>
        <item row="1" column="1">
         <widget class="QLabel" name="label">
          <property name="text">
-          <string>Selection template</string>
+          <string>Color selection template</string>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>