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August 25, 2025
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Open multiple clients for tax preparation or review.

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  • August 25, 2025
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While working on a client's return, another client calls regarding return under preparation. One will have to close the current file to open a new file for a few minutes of review, close the file after consultation to go back to the other return under preparation. 

Am I making any sense?

 

 

5 replies

IRonMaN
Level 15
August 25, 2025

You are making sense, but it sounds like a recipe for disaster for some folks.  If they do that, another person is going to come along complaining that they had multiple client files open and then they accidentally started entering data in the wrong client's return.  Some things are better left as is.

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BobKamman
Level 15
August 25, 2025

While working on a client's return, another client calls regarding return under preparation.

Tell every client they deserve and receive your undivided attention, even if not physically present when you are working on their returns, and tell the other client you'll call back later.   

Just-Lisa-Now-
Intuit Community Champion
August 26, 2025

So many times Ive entered things in the wrong year, for the same client, when having 2 years open at once.   I dont want to have 2 different clients open on my screen at one time!

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Accountant-Man
Level 13
August 26, 2025

Pro Series allows you to change the PRIOR year's program to have a different color background to having two years open are less worrisome.

It takes a little practice to realize it.

The Options Tools option to change the background color does not appear until NEXT year. So you cannot change the 2024 background until you have installed 2025 software.

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Just-Lisa-Now-
Intuit Community Champion
August 27, 2025

Yea, but if you've got 2 different prior years open, they're the same.

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