Renaming artboards from an Excel file

how many Artboards do you have? if you only have a few, use this script and type your names directly in the array. Also you might be able to convert your excel names into a string using a formula and paste directly in the script...but to answer your question, yes, it is possible to read names from a file, a CSV file.

// rename Artboards
// CarlosCanto
// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2489726
function main() {
    renameArtboards (['CV', 'UC', 'GE']);
}
main();
// renames artboards to provided array of names
function renameArtboards (names) {
    var idoc = app.activeDocument;
  
    for (i=0; i<names.length; i++) {
        ab = idoc.artboards;
        ab.name = names;
    }
}

you could do this with JS inside illustrator, however it's best to save your Excel file as a CSV first since excel workbook/worksheet documents are full of proprietary microsoft encrypted gibberish.

Hi Mark,

I think this would be best answered on our scripting forum, hence moving it to Illustrator Scripting​ forum.

Regards,

Srishti