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After you complete your federal tax return and you move to the State Taxes section, select Go To Your State Return. TurboTax will guide you through completing your state tax return.   If you've already e-filed your federal return and want to prepare your state return, refer to the TurboTax Help article Can I file my federal taxes now and skip my state for later? for more information.   If you haven't filed your federal return, you can't use TurboTax just to file your state return.  Refer to the TurboTax article  Can I prepare and file just my state return using TurboTax? for more information.

I called support and they didn't help at all. In fact they put me on hold then ended up hanging up on me. I don't want to go through that again. I'll pay the fee from my refund, which I don't want to do. I'm going with H&R Block next year. Sorry TT we had a nice 10 -15 year run.     

Interesting. The problem was in the "version" of Schedule A that appeared under California Forms. There wasn't initially a Schedule A under my federal forms -- presumably because my standard deduction for federal purposes was more than my itemized deductions. So, in Forms mode I manually opened a new Schedule A, which appeared under my federal forms, and, voila, it had the correct prose. I then removed the Schedule A that had mysteriously appeared under my California Forms ... and a few seconds later, a new Schedule A was created there, populated with the correct data but with the previously reported incorrect prose! Bottom line: There's still a bug. It's just not as straightforward as I initially thought.

One last question.  So the same applies for "Foreign gross income - Gross income from all sources (Column g)" (picture below)?  Only enter the portion from non-US sources in this field?  I only ask because this entry gets placed on line C, "Gross income from all sources" on the Schedule K-3 - Foreign Transaction Smart Worksheet.   The questionnaire has the added "Foreign gross income" and the worksheet does not.