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diff --git a/Doc/using/venv-create.inc b/Doc/using/venv-create.inc
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--- a/Doc/using/venv-create.inc
+++ b/Doc/using/venv-create.inc
@@ -56,20 +56,21 @@ virtualenv will be created, according to the given options, at each
provided path.
Once a venv has been created, it can be "activated" using a script in the
-venv's binary directory. The invocation of the script is platform-specific: on
-a Posix platform, you would typically do::
-
- $ source <venv>/bin/activate
-
-whereas on Windows, you might do::
-
- C:\> <venv>/Scripts/activate
-
-if you are using the ``cmd.exe`` shell, or perhaps::
-
- PS C:\> <venv>/Scripts/Activate.ps1
-
-if you use PowerShell.
+venv's binary directory. The invocation of the script is platform-specific:
+
++-------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
+| Platform | Shell | Command to activate virtual environment |
++=============+=================+=========================================+
+| Posix | bash/zsh | $ source <venv>/bin/activate |
++-------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
+| | fish | $ . <venv>/bin/activate.fish |
++-------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
+| | csh/tcsh | $ source <venv>/bin/activate.csh |
++-------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
+| Windows | cmd.exe | C:\> <venv>/Scripts/activate.bat |
++-------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
+| | PowerShell | PS C:\> <venv>/Scripts/Activate.ps1 |
++-------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
You don't specifically *need* to activate an environment; activation just
prepends the venv's binary directory to your path, so that "python" invokes the