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Following up on Foxbat's advice. I have faced your situation of a mixture of mutual funds/ETFs (RICs) and individual stocks (Various).
To be totally correct, it's my understanding that your RICs should be listed in one column (as shown in 1116 Part 1) and the individual stocks in a 2nd column, with Foreign Country as Various because you have stocks from more than one country (Part 1 as well). If you choose Go to Forms you can see the 1116 that TT auto-generated and you will see what Foxbat is referring to. But you can't enter this Part 1 column A & B info directly in 1116. Just make sure as Foxbat explains that you don’t have Various any where in 1116 Part II which you can and should correct.
There is no need to list each country in its own column (Various is an IRS-valid entry for multiple-country individual stocks). It's just needed as far as I understand to make the distinction between RICs and individual stocks. The 1099-B you received from your broker should show the Foreign Tax Paid and the Foreign Income for each international holding. So you will have to do some manual adding up of the two types. Basic pencil and calculator (or spreadsheet).
To get the RICs and Various to be reported into different 1116 Part 1 columns you will have to force it by creating 2 separate 1099-Divs for the same broker (TT does allow you to do this. You can use the Go to Forms option and say add a new 1099-Div) - one for each class of tax & income (again RICs and Various) using the amounts you calculated manually and one where you check column A (RIC) and the other where you check Column B (Various). You will see this as Box 7 & 8 on the 1099-Div. I don't know if Easy Step allows you to do this.
If you do a data import from your Broker you will have to go back and modify 1099-Div Box 7 & 8 to reflect the amount you manually calculated. And then continue to add a 2nd 1099-Div.
This can sound complicated if not very complicated. But if you print off the 1116, your 1099-Div and take the 1099-B your broker sent you, you will see how it works. (What is on 1099-Div Box 7 & 8 is what TT enters in 1116 Part 1.) It's just some manual math and some extra data entry.
Once you do it, you will be all set for next year. And hopefully TT will fix a bunch of 1116 problems and the whole thing will be much more seamless next tax year.