Tax return--change from manual to EFILE

[ccronin1991]

how can  i change and EFILE instead of turning in it manually

[mesquitebean · Accepted solution]

As long as you have not actually filed (mailed or efiled), here's how to change filing methods if TurboTax thinks you are finished:

• Log in and go to your 2016 Tax Timeline.
• If TurboTax thinks you are finished, there will be no orange "Take me to my return" button.
• So in that case, scroll down to "Some things you can do."
• 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 to through the FILE tab and change the filing method to "efile."
• Be sure you go all the way to the end to the final screen which has a button "Transmit Returns Now" and click that.
  
  

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.