diff --git a/lldb/docs/use/variable.rst b/lldb/docs/use/variable.rst
--- a/lldb/docs/use/variable.rst
+++ b/lldb/docs/use/variable.rst
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@
 
 at the LLDB command line.
 
-The ``--format`` (which you can shorten to -f) option accepts a :doc:`format
-name<formatting>`. Then, you provide one or more types to which you want the
+The ``--format`` (which you can shorten to -f) option accepts a `format
+name`_. Then, you provide one or more types to which you want the
 new format applied.
 
 A frequent scenario is that your program has a typedef for a numeric type that
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@
 Finally, this is a list of formatting options available out of which you can
 pick:
 
+.. _`format name`:
+
 +-----------------------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | **Format name**                               | **Abbreviation** | **Description**                                                          |
 +-----------------------------------------------+------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+