diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py
index d292cada4b..3530931c9c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/look_feel.py
@@ -167,11 +167,10 @@ class ConfigWidget(ConfigWidgetBase, Ui_Form):
                   '<a href="http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html">'
                   'tutorial</a> on using templates.') +
                  '</p><p>' +
-                _('If you want to color a field based on tags, then click the '
-                  'button next to an empty line to open the tags wizard. '
+                _('If you want to color a field based on contents of columns, '
+                  'then click the button next to an empty line to open the 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.') +
+                  'template with the same wizard.') +
                  '</p><p>' +
                 _('The template must evaluate to one of the color names shown '
                   'below. You can use any legal template expression. '