How do I go back and e file when the program says ready to mail

[mesquitebean · Accepted solution]

As long as you have not actually filed (haven't mailed or successfully efiled), here's how to open the return back up to change filing methods if TurboTax thinks you are finished:

• Log in and go to "Your Tax Returns & Documents."  Click that line or the word SHOW to expand.
• Under 2018 choose "Add a State."  (you don't really add one; that's just to get the return to open up.)
• Once the return is open, go through the REVIEW tab to be sure all is still in order.
• Then go through the FILE tab and change the filing method to "efile."
• Then be sure you go all the way to the end to the final screen and click a button "Transmit My Returns Now".
  
  

NOTE:  Do NOT use this method to open a return to make changes/edits to an already-filed return (one that has actually been mailed or efiled.)   If you later need to make changes to an already-filed return, you have to go through the formal amending process, and your return must start off exactly as originally filed.