diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index 4abf41cba..561075732 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -375,8 +375,7 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL:
     `$HOME/.local/share`, overridable by setting the `XDG_DATA_HOME`
     environment variable).  If that directory does not exist and
     `$HOME/.pandoc` exists, it will be used (for backwards compatibility).
-    On Windows the default user data directory is
-    `C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\pandoc`.
+    On Windows the default user data directory is `%APPDATA%\pandoc`.
     You can find the default user data directory on your system by
     looking at the output of `pandoc --version`.
     Data files placed in this directory (for example, `reference.odt`,