diff --git a/_install-and-configure/configuring-opensearch/index.md b/_install-and-configure/configuring-opensearch/index.md
index e599b05b9d..17b4d968bf 100755
--- a/_install-and-configure/configuring-opensearch/index.md
+++ b/_install-and-configure/configuring-opensearch/index.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Certain operations are static and require you to modify the `opensearch.yml` [co
 
 ## Specifying settings as environment variables
 
-You can specify environment variables in different ways.
+You can specify environment variables in the following ways.
 
 ### Arguments as start up
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ You can specify environment variables as arguments using `-E` when launching Ope
 
 ### Directly in the shell environment
 
-You can configure the environment variables directly in shell before starting OpenSearch:
+You can configure the environment variables directly in a shell environment before starting OpenSearch, as shown in the following example:
 
 ```bash
 export OPENSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS="-Xms2g -Xmx2g"
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ export OPENSEARCH_PATH_CONF="/etc/opensearch"
 
 ### Systemd service file
 
-When running OpenSearch as a service managed by systemd, you can specify environment variables in the service file:
+When running OpenSearch as a service managed by `systemd`, you can specify environment variables in the service file, as shown in the following example:
 
 ```bash
 # /etc/systemd/system/opensearch.service.d/override.conf
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ When running OpenSearch as a service managed by systemd, you can specify environ
 Environment="OPENSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms2g -Xmx2g"
 Environment="OPENSEARCH_PATH_CONF=/etc/opensearch"
 ```
-After creating or modifying the file, reload the systemd configuration and restart the service:
+After creating or modifying the file, reload the systemd configuration and restart the service using the following command:
 
 ```bash
 sudo systemctl daemon-reload
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ sudo systemctl restart opensearch
 
 ### Docker environment variables
 
-When running OpenSearch in Docker, you can specify environment variables using the -e option with Docker run:
+When running OpenSearch in Docker, you can specify environment variables using the -e option with Docker run, as shown in the following command:
 
 ```bash
 docker run -e "OPENSEARCH_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms2g -Xmx2g" -e "OPENSEARCH_PATH_CONF=/usr/share/opensearch/config" opensearchproject/opensearch:latest