Bulk entry of label help text

Hi all,
Is there a way to enter help text for labels 'en masse'. The product manager for one of our applications wants to go through and put new help text on every label.
This is obviously a fairly tedious and time consuming task and I was wondering if there was a simpler way than going through the application and finding each item and setting the text? The manager is definitely 'non-technical' and frankly I'd be wary of letting him have direct access to the application definition, yet I don't really want to spend ages entering all this help text myself!
Any thoughts anyone?
Cheers,
Steve H

Steve,
You can achieve this in bulk via the built-in application reports:
Appilcation > Application Reports > Page Components > Item Help Text
It's a really easy process so you shouldn't have any issues for a non-techie doing it (although a backup is never a bad idea!!). By default, the report only displays items that currently have help text, so you have the option to 'Seed Item Help Text' with some default text. Once this is done, you have access to all item's help text's for the application.
Anthony
http://anthonyrayner.blogspot.com
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