diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
index d0c3b0abf931..20e7768304b7 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
@@ -1009,13 +1009,14 @@ name of the bean is used.
 The bean name in the example above is `acme-com.example.AcmeProperties`.
 ====
 
-Even if the preceding configuration creates a regular bean for `AcmeProperties`, we
+The preceding configuration creates a regular bean for `AcmeProperties`. We
 recommend that `@ConfigurationProperties` only deal with the environment and, in
-particular, does not inject other beans from the context. Having said that, the
+particular, does not inject other beans from the context. Keep in mind that the
 `@EnableConfigurationProperties` annotation is _also_ automatically applied to your
 project so that any _existing_ bean annotated with `@ConfigurationProperties` is
-configured from the `Environment`. You could shortcut `MyConfiguration` by making sure
-`AcmeProperties` is already a bean, as shown in the following example:
+configured from the `Environment`. Instead of annotating `MyConfiguration` with
+`@EnableConfigurationProperties(AcmeProperties.class)`, you could make `AcmeProperties`
+a bean, as shown in the following example:
 
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