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diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex
index b475a5233..3f2dd73a3 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-ext.tex
@@ -1990,6 +1990,11 @@ Check (fun x y => _) 0 1.
Unset Printing Existential Instances.
\end{coq_eval}
+Existential variables can be named by the user upon creation using
+the syntax {\tt ?[\ident]}. This is useful when the existential
+variable needs to be explicitly handled later in the script (e.g.
+with a named-goal selector, see~\ref{ltac:selector}).
+
\subsection{Explicit displaying of existential instances for pretty-printing
\label{SetPrintingExistentialInstances}
\optindex{Printing Existential Instances}}
diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
index 9378529cb..9caea8f39 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ all selected goals.
\item{} [{\ident}] {\tt :} {\tacexpr}
In this variant, {\tacexpr} is applied locally to a goal
- previously named by the user.
+ previously named by the user (see~\ref{ExistentialVariables}).
\item {\num} {\tt :} {\tacexpr}