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It is important to enter all the income, then the Form 1099-Q, and then the Expenses and Scholarships ( Form 1099-T section.
If it is entered out of order, the system may be reserving $10,000 of educational expenses toward an education credit, either American Opportunity Credit or Lifetime Learning Credit. You may want to see if that leads to qualify for a credit, but if it does not, or if it will cause part of your 529 distribution to become taxable, then yes, it is fine to change that field to zero.
Your Box 1 less Box 5 less $10,00 for Education credits would give $12236.
If room and board were paid from the 529 distribution, please go back through the Education Credit section and be sure those were entered. That is not a qualifying expense for the Education credits but can be used with 529 funds.
If this does not completely solve the problem, please let us know if you are using TurboTax Online or Desktop/Download, so we may better assist you with the education section.
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