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@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If you already have existing Azure resources, you can re-use those by setting `a
 1. Run `azd env set AZURE_OPENAI_SERVICE {Name of existing OpenAI service}`
 1. Run `azd env set AZURE_OPENAI_RESOURCE_GROUP {Name of existing resource group that OpenAI service is provisioned to}`
 1. Run `azd env set AZURE_OPENAI_CHATGPT_DEPLOYMENT {Name of existing ChatGPT deployment}`. Only needed if your ChatGPT deployment is not the default 'chat'.
-1. Run `azd env set AZURE_OPENAI_EMB_DEPLOYMENT {Name of existing GPT embedding deployment}`. Only needed if your embeddings deployment is not the default 'embedding'.
+1. Run `azd env set AZURE_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_DEPLOYMENT {Name of existing GPT embedding deployment}`. Only needed if your embeddings deployment is not the default 'embedding'.
 
 #### Existing Azure Cognitive Search resource