If you are filing MFS you have to tell the software if you and your spouse will itemize or use standard deduction and you are required to both file the same way. Not one of each. Even if it is not to one spouse's advantage to itemize. Those are the rules. (And those rules contribute to filing separately often being the worst way to file.) If your spouse itemized then you have to itemize too----even if you have to force it.
HOW TO FORCE ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900142-how-do-i-change-from-the-standard-deduction-to-itemized-or...
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