You can, and I do, use the remote control to get the star centered. If the motors move too slowly for your tastes, go to the keyboard and hit the m key. That changes the speed of the motors in the micro stepping section. That keeps the star in the eyepiece. This puts the stars coordinates into the display screen.
Tracking resumes after a correction for the time it was off.
Arrow over to reset and hit the enter key. That is all that is needed to initialize this mount. After the object title is displayed on the screen, arrow to move then hit enter 10. A screen will pop up asking you to hit the letter y . Hit y and the scope then begins moving.