NOL not carry forward from 2016 to 2017 & 2018

In 2016 I had a substantial net operating loss when I filed my taxes using TurboTax Home & Business, but it did not carry that loss over to 2017 or 2018.

If I go and enter it back into TurboTax 2017 so it covers 17 and 18, am I correct in assuming that it will modify those tax forms so that I would have to amend the filing of both 17 & 18? Could I instead just input it into 2018 so that it moves forward to 2019, or would it be best to just add it into the 2019 taxes as I file those?