Does anyone remember when we could change the 'appearance' of the program? I wish the new year looked a bit different...

[Marc-TaxMan]

..., because when I work on a client I have the prior return open and bounce back and forth between new year and old year.... and they look exactly alike... creating too much opportunity for user error

[Just-Lisa-Now- · Accepted solution]

This one?  Uncheck it and it changes the entry field background to white, rather than yellow.

[rbynaker]

That's the one.

[Marc-TaxMan]

wonderful.  and just looking at the 2018 PS is different

[IRonMaN]

 "creating too much opportunity for user error"

But that is why we now have the Archie Leach Memorial Toggle Switch to lock the returns so that doesn't happen.  But as a side note, you can try searching the archives for help on that.  I know the subject has been brought up before.

[rbynaker]

On the older years I turn off the setting where enterable fields are yellow.  It makes it really annoying to do prior year returns (I worked on 2 today, new client needs 1040X for 2015-2017) BUT I will never accidentally enter stuff in an older year.

Rick