Thank you for your reply. I do understand everything you wrote. I want to be able to itemize because we live in Wisconsin and can take the Wisconsin Homestead Credit. We actually do better with a higher refund from WI (zero refund from Federal) because of the Homestead Credit. The WI form asks if we itemize federal in order to get the higher refund, but the system won't let us. Again, this happened last year too, but someone told us how to FORCE the itemized deduction feature to override the standard and it worked! I can't remember what I did. Please help me to be able to choose the itemized feature since the system is telling us that is our best choice. Thanks!
