diff --git a/src/multiBamCov/multiBamCovMain.cpp b/src/multiBamCov/multiBamCovMain.cpp
index 0491f3acbb3148f566d39d19cb1b76dacb674bbd..55d93cbd2388b84a53f8844e542c0cdda20bb706 100644
--- a/src/multiBamCov/multiBamCovMain.cpp
+++ b/src/multiBamCov/multiBamCovMain.cpp
@@ -117,9 +117,10 @@ void ShowHelp(void) {
 
     cerr << "\t-bed\t"         << "The bed file." << endl << endl;
 
-    cerr << "\t-q [INT]\t"     << "Minimum mapping quality allowed. Default is 0." << endl << endl;
+    cerr << "\t-q\t"           << "Minimum mapping quality allowed. Default is 0." << endl << endl;
 
-    cerr << "\t-p\t"           << "Omly count proper pairs.  Default is to count all alignments >= -q" << endl << endl;
+    cerr << "\t-p\t"           << "Only count proper pairs.  Default is to count all alignments with MAPQ" << endl;
+    cerr << "\t\t"             << "greater than the -q argument, regardless of the BAM FLAG field." << endl << endl;
 
     // end the program here
     exit(1);
diff --git a/src/tagBam/tagBamMain.cpp b/src/tagBam/tagBamMain.cpp
index 9bd0cebbcfda2175d2e410ed23a9200a569501ab..d2c1a5b5c6390e3b9587385e21649e86c6645164 100644
--- a/src/tagBam/tagBamMain.cpp
+++ b/src/tagBam/tagBamMain.cpp
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ void ShowHelp(void) {
     cerr << "Summary: Annotates a BAM file based on overlaps with multiple BED/GFF/VCF files" << endl;
     cerr << "\t on the intervals in -i." << endl << endl;
 
-    cerr << "Usage:   " << PROGRAM_NAME << " [OPTIONS] -i <BAM> -files FILE1 FILE2 .. FILEn -labels LAB1 LAB2 ,,, LABn" << endl << endl;
+    cerr << "Usage:   " << PROGRAM_NAME << " [OPTIONS] -i <BAM> -files FILE1 .. FILEn  -labels LAB1 .. LABn" << endl << endl;
 
     cerr << "Options: " << endl;