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 # CONFIGURATION
 
-You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and macOS, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf`. Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself.
+You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. The table below shows the locations
+of the config files.
+
+|              | System wide config file location  | User wide config file location         |
+|--------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
+| Linux/ macOS | `/etc/youtube-dl.conf`            | `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`          |
+| Windows      | `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` | `C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf` |
+
+Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself.
 
 For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory:
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