>I have alot of fields of the same type and I need to set filt to for each one of them simultaneously. Example: set filt to state1="paid" .or. state2="paid" .or. state3="paid" .or. state4="paid".......state30 ="paid" etc down to over 30 states.
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>How can I get around this limitation?

Could you:

select keyfield, state1+state2+staten as allstates from sourcetable into cursor statespaid
set filter to "paid" $ allstates
index on keyfield tag keyfield
select myorgtable
set relation to keyfield into statespaid
count all for !eof("statespaid")