diff --git a/doc/ref/cli/salt-call.rst b/doc/ref/cli/salt-call.rst
index 0c325ac794..8eb0aba87b 100644
--- a/doc/ref/cli/salt-call.rst
+++ b/doc/ref/cli/salt-call.rst
@@ -44,24 +44,17 @@ Options
     ``trace``, ``warning``, ``error``, ``debug``. For the logfile
     settings see the config file. Default: ``info``.
 
-.. option::  --raw-out
+.. option:: --out
 
-    Print the output from the salt command in raw Python
-    form, this is suitable for re-reading the output into
-    an executing Python script with eval.
-
-.. option::   --text-out
-
-    Print the output from the salt command in the same
-    form the shell would.
-
-.. option::   --yaml-out
-
-    Print the output from the salt command in YAML.
-
-.. option::   --json-out
-
-    Print the output from the salt command in JSON.
+    Pass in an alternative outputter to display the return of data. This
+    outputter can be any of the available outputters:
+    grains, highstate, json, key, overstatestage, pprint, raw, txt, yaml
+    Some outputters are formatted only for data returned from specific
+    functions, for instance the grains outputter will not work for non grains
+    data.
+    If an outputter is used that does not support the data passed into it, then
+    Salt will fall back on the pprint outputter and display the return data
+    using the python pprint library.
 
 .. option:: --no-color