"According to the IRS website, as of July 31, there were approximately 13.8 million unprocessed individual income tax returns. This is down from 15.6 million as of July 17, so the backlog is being chipped away slowly but surely,” said James McGrory, a CPA and shareholder at Drucker & Scaccetti in Philadelphia."
When I was still using ATX, I never had a problem with using the Reload Forms Utility Function.
Of course you should save the return before you do it.
Perhaps someone who currently uses ATX can chime in.