>>I have five comboboxes based on my class "cbocombopopup". I want to use the Right-Click method of this class to popup another form that has a grid with my "metadata" table as the record source. I want to filter the table according to which subclassed combobox the user right clicks on. Why does this work in the Right-Click method of my Class, the name of the subclassed combobox is "cboRef":
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>>

>>   IF This.Parent.Name = "frmQuoteNum"
>>     SELECT metadata
>>     SET FILTER TO ALLTRIM(datafield) = "cboRef"
>>   ENDIF
>>

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>>...but this doesn't work:
>>
>>

>>  IF This.Parent.Name = "frmQuoteNum"
>>     SELECT metadata
>>     SET FILTER TO ALLTRIM(datafield) = ALLTRIM(This.Name)
>>  ENDIF
>>

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>Are you sure there's no digit attached to this.name? I would expect that this.name="cboref1".

No, it's not the numbering/naming issue. I distinctly named these. But I think I will go with Stephan's suggestions. Thank you for your input.