diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/edit/specific/user_retry.jsp b/webapp/web/templates/edit/specific/user_retry.jsp
index a295ff85d..a8eb513e5 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/edit/specific/user_retry.jsp
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/edit/specific/user_retry.jsp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
 
 <jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"  xmlns:form="http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/edit/tags" version="2.0">
 
@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@
 	</tr>
 	<tr class="editformcell">
 		<td valign="bottom" colspan="1">
-			<b>First Name</b><br/>
+			<b>First Name*</b><br/>
                         <input type="text" name="FirstName" value="${formValue['FirstName']}" size="30" maxlength="120"/>
 			<span class="warning"><form:error name="FirstName"/></span>
 		</td>
                 <td valign="bottom" colspan="1">
-                        <b>Last Name</b><br/>
+                        <b>Last Name*</b><br/>
                         <input type="text" name="LastName" value="${formValue['LastName']}" size="30" maxlength="120"/>
                         <span class="warning"><form:error name="LastName"/></span>
                 </td>
 	</tr>
 	<tr class="editformcell">
                 <td valign="bottom" colspan="2">
-                        <b>Role</b><br/>
+                        <b>Role*</b><br/>
                         <select name="RoleURI">
                             <form:option name="Role"/>
                         </select>
@@ -35,16 +35,16 @@
         <c:if test="${empty user.md5password}">
           <tr class="editformcell">
               <td valign="bottom" colspan="2">
-                      <b>Password (6-12 characters)</b><br/>
+                      <b>Default Password* (6-12 characters; must be changed on first login)</b><br/>
                       <input type="password" name="Md5password" value="${formValue['Md5password']}" size="64" maxlength="128"/>
                       <span class="warning"><form:error name="Md5password"/></span>
               </td>
           </tr>
           <tr class="editformcell">
               <td valign="bottom" colspan="2">
-                      <b>Confirm password</b><br/>
+                      <b>Confirm password*</b><br/>
                       <input type="password" name="passwordConfirmation" value="${formValue['passwordConfirmation']}" size="64" maxlength="128"/>
-                      <span class="warning"><form:error name="passwordConfirmation"/></span>
+                      <span class="warning"><form:error name="passwordConfirmation"/></span>
               </td>
           </tr>
         </c:if>