thanx for the link chris, but its not that straight forward. i´ve followed the instructions til i´m blue in the face, and still no joy. still i´ll have to soldier on!!
A blank Calc spreadsheet has several thousand lines available, so I'm not too sure as to how you've only got 8. I've just tried saving a Calc spreadsheet with only 8 lines in use but opening it up again still keeps all of the additional lines there. So I can't easily visualise what you're seeing on your own screen.