diff --git a/doc/collaboration/documentation/about.rst b/doc/collaboration/documentation/about.rst
index 1413b01907a..2c1dd3462e5 100644
--- a/doc/collaboration/documentation/about.rst
+++ b/doc/collaboration/documentation/about.rst
@@ -24,19 +24,23 @@ Audience
 
 This style guide has two audiences:
 
-* Primary audience: Developers who author content that describes product function, code examples,
-  procedures and more. Guidelines apply to human and machine generated content, such as APIs.
+* Primary audience: Developers who author content that describes product
+  function, code examples, procedures and more. Guidelines apply to human and
+  machine generated content, such as APIs.
 
-* Technical writers that wish to create technical documentation for the |project| (writers).
+* Technical writers that wish to create technical documentation for the
+  |project| (writers).
 
-* Secondary audience: Developers that wish to document their code and features (authors).
+* Secondary audience: Developers that wish to document their code and
+  features (authors).
 
 Where the guideline makes a distinction for the two audiences, we will
 refer to these groups as writers and authors.
 
 .. note::
-   As secondary audience, developers are not expected to master the style and writing guidelines
-   in this document; it is available to them as a reference.
+   As secondary audience, developers are not expected to master the style and
+   writing guidelines in this document; it is available to them as a
+   reference.
 
 Methodology
 ***********
diff --git a/doc/collaboration/documentation/simple.rst b/doc/collaboration/documentation/simple.rst
index 6e84c328e19..a3d72b1207d 100644
--- a/doc/collaboration/documentation/simple.rst
+++ b/doc/collaboration/documentation/simple.rst
@@ -112,14 +112,14 @@ Action Verbs vs. Nominalizations
 Avoid nominalizations, which are nouns formed from verbs. For example:
 
 ===================== =====================
-Verbs 						Nominalizations
+Verbs             Nominalizations
 ===================== =====================
-complete  						completion
-introduce  						introduction
-provide  						provision
-fail  							failure
-arrange  						arrangement
-install  						installation
+complete              completion
+introduce             introduction
+provide             provision
+fail                failure
+arrange             arrangement
+install             installation
 ===================== =====================
 
 The problem with nominalizations is that they are often used instead of