far be it for me to distract from a good developing 'discussion' ;) thanks for the input people the calc option, as much as i like a good spreadsheet i don't really think its going to produce a booklet type phone number book without a good deal of tweaking and as has been pointed out calk wont connect directly to the thunderbird database thanks for the suggestion though base, I've already connected to the database and got a output of the fields i want, what i want now is to know how to go into design view and build an output that would look and print off something like a purchased phone book Tom, havent had a chance to have a proper look at the links yet - thanks and if anyone does have a suitable template -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-Phone-book-tp3744152p3745535.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted