Moving from Microsoft Office VBA to AppleScript:
MacTech's Guide to Making the Transition

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April, 2007
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              full name of active workbook

     end repeat

Note that when using the repeat with someVariable in someList form (which closely patterns the usual VBA loop syntax so people tend to prefer it), if you have not previously set a variable someList to the list but instead are accessing the object reference right there in the repeat statement (selected sheets of active window), you must use the explicit get to force an evaluation.

Rename a worksheet with a number index

When Excel copies a worksheet, by default it‘s named "Sheet(xxx)", where xxx is a number that increments each time a worksheet is added. To reproduce that with another name, you might be doing this in VBA:

Const sBASENAME As String = "MySheetName"

Dim ws As Worksheet

Dim sTryName As String

Dim i As Long

Worksheets.Add After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)

On Error Resume Next

sTryName = sBASENAME

Set ws = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(sTryName)

Do Until ws Is Nothing

   Set ws = Nothing

   i = i + 1

   sTryName = sBASENAME & Format(i, " (0)")

   Set ws = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(sTryName)

Loop

ActiveSheet.Name = sTryName

On Error GoTo 0

We do a few things differently in AppleScript:

property sBASENAME : "MySheetName"

tell application "Microsoft Excel"

     make new worksheet at end of active workbook

     try

          set sTryName to sBASENAME

          set ws to worksheet sTryName of active workbook

          ws -- forces an error if no such worksheet

          set i to 0 -- needs to be explicit

          repeat -- no need to set ws to null at end

              set i to i + 1

              set sTryName to sBASENAME & " (" & i & ")"

              set ws to worksheet sTryName of active workbook

              ws -- forces an error if no such worksheet

          end repeat

     on error