Thank you . The tax tools was greyed and no action could be performed,
However the main reason I wanted to see the preview and possibly edit (which i found out is not possible except during review for errors and correct errors) is that Turbo Tax was not able to handle a situation directly and with clarity. Retirement income of my wife is taxed federally but not in the state for 3 years (so called 3 year rule).
I did not know how to get there . The solution it seems is to interpret the retirement income like 401K in one of the questions (it only specified 401 k ) that comes up after entering 1099-R. Subsequently I saw that I can apply the 3-year rule,
Still there is a bug because on entering the amount that is exempt from State Taxes, Turbo Tax simply zeroed out for Federal also. However the program has a quirk, After entering zero for state I went back to the screen and re-entered the full amount and this time only Federal income was updated and did not change the State income as zero
In the first place, 1099-R was entered showing state distribution was zero and that Federal distribution is the amount on 1099-R. The program did not handle that situation properly. However I have described the work around. Later when I was able to get to the review, then other information for 3 year rule was asked for. At that time a snippet of form was available.
When review was over I could preview the 1040 form and subsequently filed it,
Turbo Tax hopefully will fix this problem (as well as as confusing messages) in the next year's version.
This is my first experience with trying out online and also using this forum
I truly appreciate your response.
