The installation program for TapText will run it automatically for you and the default options will register TapText to start with your system every time you SoftReset your device.
If you exit TapText, then you can run it by tapping on its icon in the "Programs" folder, that’s StartMenu->Programs->TapText.

Once TapText is running, it installs a small icon at the top of your screen, to use TapText, you just need to tap on this icon to bring the menu up, once the menu is shown you can select the entry you want in its menu and TapText will insert the associated text with this menu entry into your active application.

Bring TapText's menu up by tapping on its icon, then tap on the (opt) at the header of the menu.

Yes, you can assign TapText to a a hardware button, every time you press on this hardware button the menu will be brought up.

StartMenu->Settings->Hardware Keys
Select the key you want to assign to TapText from the list, and search for "TapText" in the drop down list, then tap OK.

TapText doesn't have this feature as it's useless; TapText is used to insert text into your active application.
If TapText installs its icon at the bottom bar, the active application will hide its icon making it inaccessible and useless.

This can be done through the options as well, where you can turn TapText's icon at the top bar on or off.

Yes, through the display options you can move any of the displayed icons at the top bar, use the arrows located beside the shortcut name to move the icon for this shortcut left or right.

Go to the options dialog, tap on "File" menu item at the bottom and select Exit.

You can design your own icon (to fit properly with your today screen).
The icon has to be in a bitmap format (.BMP). The size for the QVGA device is 16x16 pixels and for the VGA devices 32x32 pixels.
You can set TapText to use your new icon from the options dialog where you have to turn on the custom icon feature and specify the location of your image.

You need to go to the options dialog and tap the add button [+].
Select the type of item you want to add, tap on the icon displayed to change it and if this is a text item, then you need to add your title and text, then tap (OK).

“Title”, is the name of the menu item that will be displayed in the menu.
“Text”, is the text associated with this menu entry (the text that will be inserted in your document when this menu item is selected).

TapText allows you to add

•  Separator;
  A solid line used to help you organize your menu items.
• Text;
  The entries associated with text, those entries when selected from the menu will insert the text associated text them into the active application.
• Sub Menu;
  This creates a sub menu item to help you organize your text items into categories. When those entries are selected in the menu they open a sub menu.

TapText allows you to use two different sub menu styles

• Cascading menu;
  This type will make your sub menu pop out of the parent menu.
• Always one menu;
  This new intuitive menu type will help you remove the clatter caused by many sub menu levels open at the same time by closing the parent menu and displaying the sub menu in its place. When a sub menu of this type is displayed a go back symbol will be displayed in the menu header, if you tap on the header, this will take you back to the previous menu.

Unfortunately not, but we’re thinking of adding this ability in a future release.

This is actually a preview window to quickly show you the text associated with text entries when you select them in the tree view. To change the text in any text entry you’ll need to edit this entry.

Select the text entry in the tree view and tap the edit button (the one with the pen), this will bring the edit box up where you can change the title, the text and/or the icon.

Yes, the icons are there only to help you find your different entries easily, we don’t have any restrictions on how many times you’ll use the same icon for different entries.

Those check marks define wither this entry is show in the menu or not, if you have entries that you want to temporary disable them (prevent them from showing) then don’t delete them, just remove their check marks.

You need to select this entry and tap the delete button [-].

Unfortunately not, if you’re not sure if you want to delete a specific entry or not, then just remove the check mark beside it and don’t delete it.

Yes, when you select an entry in the tree view, tapping the up and down buttons will move this entry up or down in its sub menu affecting where it will appear in the real TapText menu.

You’ll need to move this entry first from its menu, this will upgrade the selected menu item and make it on the same level as its parent. Then you can move it down or up until you reach the other sub menu and downgrade the entry again and that will make it a child of this other menu. To assist you even more, TapText will enable and disable the different buttons according to its position and what can be done to it.

This is to tell TapText where you want any new created entries to be added. Select the <new item> entry where you want to add the new item before you add it and it will be inserted into this same place.

The menu is automatically saved for you once you exit the options dialog into a file called TapText.dmd. This file is saved under your “my documents” folder so it gets synchronized with your PC along with all your other data.

To save the menu definition file you need to use the “export” command (found in the file menu inside the options dialog). To import a previously saved menu into TapText you can use the “import” command found in the same menu.

Yes you can, while editing your text; you can use the clock button to insert a time stamp within your text. You can select from the different formats found in the menu.
When this text (including the time stamp) is inserted into a document, TapText will use the current date when it inserts this text into your document.

Yes you can, while editing your text; you can use the calendar button to insert a time stamp within your text. You can select from the different formats found in the menu.
When this text (including the date stamp) is inserted into a document, TapText will use the current date when it inserts this text into your document.

This will bring a menu for inserting special commands into your text

• Tab;
  Used to insert a tab character into your document, when this is used in a form/ dialog, the tab will move the focus to the next editor in the form/dialog.
• Ctrl-B;
  This will emulate the user pressing ctrl-b (which, in most editors, toggles the bold effect on and off)
• Ctrl-I;
  This will emulate the user pressing ctrl-i (which, in most editors, toggles the italic effect on and off)
• Ctrl-U;
  This will emulate the user pressing ctrl-u (which, in most editors, toggles the underline effect on and off)