DIY Telephone Directory. (SOLVED, sort of.)

[BJF]

One of the Other Distro's has an app called Outlook that does pretty much what I want to achieve, and that is to input contact names and phone numbers, have it order and collate them into groups under their initial letter, and output them in two columns printed on an A4 page.
I have rummaged around in Synaptic and found Rubrica, but it doesn't seem to have an option to print selected fields in a way to get the output format I'd like.
Do we have something over here that can do what I want? Suggestions and recommendations are welcomed. Being a rabid LXDE practitioner I'd like something small-ish and Gnome-like for choice, and in a shade of pastel blue if it could be done.  

Thanks team,
John.

[BJF]

Left to my own devices, I came up with an add-on template for LibreOffice which, although not what I wanted, will do. I suspect that given long enough, I can get it to deliver most of the goods.

[longtom]

With LO Base you should be able to build what you need, add queries to your hearts content and process and even print reports sorted to your specifications.

[menotu]

LO Calc will also do what you ask.

Can you possibly provide a link to the Outlook app you mention - thank you.

[BJF]

Menotu: Calm down. Outlook is a M$ app, and I had this dog-eared pencil-altered really old list made when XP was part of the family. Before we saw the light, and the light was Texstar. 
I wanted to make a new one a lot like the old one (was!).

I'm tinkering with LO Calc, as it happens. Raw ignorance is all that's holding me back now.

[longtom]

You could use thunderbird to achieve the same.  Outlook is a e-mail client - as is thunderbird, and the address option in Thunderbird is good as well

[BJF]

Longtom: You're up early/late...

Does TBird output data in 2 columns, and with name followed by number? If so, might be worth a swap from Claws, for a variety of reasons.

[longtom]

Longtom: You're up early/late...

Does TBird output data in 2 columns, and with name followed by number? If so, might be worth a swap from Claws, for a variety of reasons.

You got me - on this machine I use claws myself ... but I think Thunderbird does these things.  Rather ask somebody who is using it now since I use mine only in 2 days again ...

Thunderbird also has extensions like lightning.  It's just heavy on juice which is the reason I am not using it on this old box.

[Just17]

Longtom: You're up early/late...

Does TBird output data in 2 columns, and with name followed by number? If so, might be worth a swap from Claws, for a variety of reasons.

It will export the Address book in CSV (or other) format .....  from which you should be able to manage to extract the columns you need.

[pags]

You could check out Evolution (although it doesn't meet your "small-ish" requirement), as it is a bit of an "Outlook clone" for Linux...

[BJF]

Thanks Pags. I put it on a desktop box that is the "dog'sbody" computer/print server at ours as a tryout. Can't get the output to just give name and number without a whole lot of other data it extrapolates from my input. I'll try exporting selected fields and then pulling them back to print. Close, as they say, but still no cigar. I'm gonna crack this!

[menotu]

Menotu: Calm down. Outlook is a M$ app, and I had this dog-eared pencil-altered really old list made when XP was part of the family. Before we saw the light, and the light was Texstar. 
I wanted to make a new one a lot like the old one (was!).

I'm tinkering with LO Calc, as it happens. Raw ignorance is all that's holding me back now.

 

Thanks BJF - I thought it was MS Outlook but thought it best to ask....