ca123
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TT 2018 online prompted me to import my 2017 tax return PDF (created by TT), but still asked me to enter fields manually later on. Does it have a problem reading in PDFs?

Longtime TT download software user. Trying TT online for the first time for 2018 returns. It prompts me to import previous year's (2017) return. I point it to the PDF my downloaded software had generated (it won't accept my .tax2017 file). However, later on in the process, for some calculation or other, it asked me to enter a whole bunch of fields from the 2017 return manually, which was a pain to do. Does it have a problem reading in that PDF?? If I'd stayed with TT download for 2018, would it have been able to read all of what it needed from the tax2017 file? Hmm, not yet convinced to move from download to online (online costs more too!).