diff --git a/spring-geode-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc b/spring-geode-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc
index 1b4f5f95..7ee0130a 100644
--- a/spring-geode-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc
+++ b/spring-geode-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/index.adoc
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ To use Spring Boot for Apache Geode, declare the `spring-geode-starter` on your
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 .Grade
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+[source,java]
 [subs="verbatim,attributes"]
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 dependencies {