Retirement tax questions

The 1099-R was entered properly. 1 has gross, 2 has taxable, box 7 =7, IRA/SEP not checked, 9b has employee contributions amount.  Same boxes for past several years but this year it isn't flowing to the CT-1040 line 18 insofar as column B is concerned .. otherwise it is populating (the remainder of line 18).
Column B was just blank and evidently that was the reason for the red exclamation and 1040 incomplete message because when I added the amount in FORMS MODE, "error" went away.
TurboTax usually fills this out without my assistance.  My 1040 line 5a has the gross and 5b has the taxable.
I would Appreciate it if TurboTax could acknowledge the error and plan to fix it.