As long as you have not actually filed yet (not mailed and not successfully efiled), here's how to open the return back up to change filing methods if TurboTax thinks you are finished:
- Log in and go to "Your Tax Returns & Documents." Click that line or the word SHOW to expand.
- Under 2017 choose "Add a State." (you don't really add one; that's just to get the return to open up.)
- Once the return is open, go through the REVIEW tab to be sure all is still in order.
- Then go through the FILE tab and change the filing method to "efile." Choose to efile only the state return.
- Then be sure you go all the way to the end to the final screen and click a button "Transmit My Returns Now".
NOTE: Do NOT use this method to open a return to make changes/edits to an
already-filed return (one that has actually been mailed or efiled.) If you later need to make changes to an already-filed return, you have to
go through the formal amending process, and your return must start off
exactly as originally filed.
