diff --git a/docs/source/progress.rst b/docs/source/progress.rst
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--- a/docs/source/progress.rst
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The progress bar(s) will use only as much of the width of the terminal as requir
 Columns
 ~~~~~~~
 
-You may customize the columns in the progress display with the positional arguments to the :class:`~rich.progress.Progress` constructor. The columns are specified as either a *format string* or a :class:`~rich.progress.ProgressColumn` object.
+You may customize the columns in the progress display with the positional arguments to the :class:`~rich.progress.Progress` constructor. The columns are specified as either a `format string <https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatspec>`_ or a :class:`~rich.progress.ProgressColumn` object.
 
 Format strings will be rendered with a single value `"task"` which will be a :class:`~rich.progress.Task` instance. For example ``"{task.description}"`` would display the task description in the column, and ``"{task.completed} of {task.total}"`` would display how many of the total steps have been completed. Additional fields passed via keyword arguments to `~rich.progress.Progress.update` are store in ``task.fields``. You can add them to a format string with the following syntax: ``"extra info: {task.fields[extra]}"``.