I want to change the educational credit from American opportunity credit to the Lifetime Learning credit. Turbo tax won't let me change . It only allows to find the "best".

You can override the Education Optimizer and select the education tax benefit you want to claim by using the following steps:

• On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
• This opens a box where you can type in “letme” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
• The search results will give you an option to “Jump to letme”
• Click on the blue “Jump to letme” link 

 

See the following TurboTax article for more details if the steps above do not work:  How do I override the TurboTax Education Optimizer selection?

 

 

@MaryL14

"Box where you can type in “letme” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) "

 

Do not type quotation marks (").  Type letme  with no space between let and me.