The Deluxe desktop program does have an interview for home office expenses for Schedule C. All the desktop software editions handle the same forms. The home office questions are under the "Business Expense" category, then subtopic "Home Office Expenses." It just doesn't have the extra help and guidance that Home and Business provides. I don't have the Deluxe software, so I can't make you a screen image specific for Deluxe. I can make one for Home and Business, but it's "look" and navigation are different and might confuse the issue.
There is a known issue where some Mac users who downloaded California state programs, in which the state software did not extract after downloading. See if this solves the CA state issue:
- Select the Go menu.
- Choose Go to Folder.
- Enter ~/Library and select Go.
- Navigate to the Application Support folder.
- Open the TurboTax folder.
- Open the forms folder and extract the state zipped folder listed there.
- Once completed, relaunch TurboTax.
