diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
index ec4b192985..fb6cf06ebd 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ EndSection</programlisting>
         applications should now recognize the installed &truetype;
         fonts.  Extremely small fonts (as with text in a high resolution
         display on a web page) and extremely large fonts (within
-        <application>StarOffice</application>) will look much better
+        <application>&staroffice;</application>) will look much better
         now.</para>
     </sect2>
 
@@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ esac</screen>
 
            <listitem>
 	     <para>Main panel similar to <application>CDE</application>, with
-	       menus, applets and app launchers</para>
+	       menus, applets and applications launchers</para>
            </listitem>
 
            <listitem>