Larry,

First the real answer to your question. Use a cursor and not a table. Cursor's are local to the machine that creates them. They are erased by VFP when the cursor is closed. You can use meaningful names for them as their name is the alias not the file name (they are guanrateed to have unique file names).

Now your other question. Named expressions work where VFP is expecting the name of something like a filed or a table. Marcos work everywhere. This code would work for you;

SELECT * FROM Customer INTO TABLE (lcTable)
?&lcTable..Name

Note the two dots after the macroed alias name. The first dot ends the macro and the second is part of the expression.