How can AppleScript change the name of a Numbers Table?

Without a concrete example, it's hard to be exact, but in Numbers, a table has a name property, so you should be able to do something like:

tell application "Numbers"

set name of table 1 of active sheet of document 1 to "foo"

end tell

You may need to adjust this for the table in question (is it table #1? #2?, etc.) and it's not clear how you're determining what the table name should be - how do you know this is August 2015, vs. July, or 2016?

Hi,

You can use a script like this :

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tell application "Numbers"

repeat with thisSheet in sheets of document 1

repeat with thisTable in tables of thisSheet

set thisName to name of thisTable -- August 2014 Clients

set newName to my incrementYear(thisName)

set name of thisTable to newName -- August 2015 Clients

end repeat

end repeat

end tell

on incrementYear(t) -- the year is the second word in the table's name

set y to (word 2 of t)

set {tid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, y}

set t to text items of t

set text item delimiters to (y + 1) as text -- increment the year

set t to t as string

set text item delimiters to tid

return t-- the new name

end incrementYear