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Open Your Tax Return

To work with your return (tax data file) in TurboTax, first you need to open it.

Important: To open a tax data file, you must use the same tax-year version of TurboTax (e.g., to open a 2006 tax data file, you must use TurboTax 2006 software). If you try to open a tax data file with the wrong version of TurboTax, an Error loading data file message appears.
   
Important: To open your return, always select it in TurboTax.
  1. Start TurboTax.
  2. On the Welcome Back screen in TurboTax, do one of the following:
    • Under Continue a Tax Return, select your return, and then click Continue Return.
    • Click Browse to find file, find your return, and then open it.
Note: If you receive a sharing violation error when opening your return from a CD or other external storage media, copy your return to your hard drive, and then open the file on your hard drive.

 

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