diff --git a/client/src/components/Page/PageList.vue b/client/src/components/Page/PageList.vue
index e7e0f3ac311c..d1e430b26b0e 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Page/PageList.vue
+++ b/client/src/components/Page/PageList.vue
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ import StatelessTags from "components/TagsMultiselect/StatelessTags";
 import UtcDate from "components/UtcDate";
 import paginationMixin from "components/Workflow/paginationMixin";
 import { getAppRoot } from "onload/loadConfig";
-import Filtering, { contains, equals, expandNameTagWithQuotes, toBool } from "utils/filtering";
+import Filtering, { contains, equals, expandNameTag, toBool } from "utils/filtering";
 import _l from "utils/localization";
 import { useRouter } from "vue-router/composables";
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ const validFilters = {
     tag: {
         placeholder: "tag(s)",
         type: "MultiTags",
-        handler: contains("tag", "tag", expandNameTagWithQuotes),
+        handler: contains("tag", "tag", expandNameTag),
         menuItem: true,
     },
     published: {
diff --git a/client/src/components/Workflow/WorkflowFilters.js b/client/src/components/Workflow/WorkflowFilters.js
index cc25891fafef..d91c8ca14ffd 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Workflow/WorkflowFilters.js
+++ b/client/src/components/Workflow/WorkflowFilters.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import Filtering, { contains, equals, expandNameTagWithQuotes, toBool } from "utils/filtering";
+import Filtering, { contains, equals, expandNameTag, toBool } from "utils/filtering";
 
 export const helpHtml = `<div>
 <p>This input can be used to filter the workflows displayed.</p>
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ const validFilters = {
     tag: {
         placeholder: "tag(s)",
         type: "MultiTags",
-        handler: contains("tag", "tag", expandNameTagWithQuotes),
+        handler: contains("tag", "tag", expandNameTag),
         menuItem: true,
     },
     published: {
diff --git a/client/src/utils/filtering.ts b/client/src/utils/filtering.ts
index 905b41a4fd41..c3cd711f4ada 100644
--- a/client/src/utils/filtering.ts
+++ b/client/src/utils/filtering.ts
@@ -108,25 +108,13 @@ export function toLowerNoQuotes<T>(value: T): string {
  * */
 export function expandNameTag<T>(value: T): string {
     if (value && typeof value === "string") {
-        value = value.replace(/^#/, "name:") as T;
-    }
-    return toLower(value);
-}
-
-/** Converts name tags starting with "#" to "'name:...'"; forces quotation marks
- * and **is also case-sensitive**
- * @param value
- * @returns Lowercase value with 'name:' replaced with '#'
- */
-export function expandNameTagWithQuotes<T>(value: T): string {
-    if (value && typeof value === "string") {
-        if (value.startsWith("'#") && value.endsWith("'")) {
-            value = value.replace(/^'#/g, "'name:") as T;
-        } else if (value.startsWith("#")) {
-            value = `'name:${value.slice(1)}'` as T;
+        if ((value.startsWith("'#") || value.startsWith('"#')) && (value.endsWith('"') || value.endsWith("'"))) {
+            value = value.replace(/^['"]#/g, "'name:") as T;
+        } else {
+            value = value.replace(/^#/, "name:") as T;
         }
     }
-    return value as string;
+    return toLower(value);
 }
 
 /** Converts string alias to string operator, e.g.: 'gt' to '>'
@@ -569,8 +557,6 @@ export default class Filtering<T> {
                     return filterValue;
                 } else if (!backendFormatted && ([expandNameTag, toDate] as Converter<T>[]).includes(converter)) {
                     return toLower(filterValue) as T;
-                } else if (!backendFormatted && converter == expandNameTagWithQuotes) {
-                    return (filterValue as string).startsWith("#") ? (`'${filterValue}'` as T) : filterValue;
                 }
                 return converter(filterValue);
             } else {
diff --git a/lib/galaxy/util/search.py b/lib/galaxy/util/search.py
index b0db7505619e..11f072489e81 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/util/search.py
+++ b/lib/galaxy/util/search.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def parse_filters_structured(
     search_space = search_term.replace('"', "'")
     filters = filters or {}
     filter_keys = "|".join(list(filters.keys()))
-    pattern = rf"({filter_keys}):(?:\s+)?([\w-]+|\'.*?\')"
+    pattern = rf"({filter_keys}):(?:\s+)?([\w-]+|'.*?')(:\w+)?"
     reserved = re.compile(pattern)
     parsed_search = ParsedSearch()
     while True:
@@ -52,8 +52,11 @@ def parse_filters_structured(
         else:
             first_group = match.groups()[0]
             if first_group in filters:
+                if match.groups()[0] == "tag" and match.groups()[1] == "name" and match.groups()[2] is not None:
+                    group = match.groups()[1] + match.groups()[2].strip()
+                else:
+                    group = match.groups()[1].strip()
                 filter_as = filters[first_group]
-                group = match.groups()[1].strip()
                 quoted = preserve_quotes and group.startswith("'")
                 parsed_search.add_keyed_term(filter_as, group.replace("'", ""), quoted)
             parsed_search.add_unfiltered_text_terms(search_space[0 : match.start()])