I am finding it extremely frustrating trying to create a default page style for
the spreadsheet template. I seem to have everything fine except for setting the
default height of the rows. It would be a lot easier if I wasn’t looking at page
style settings that are being shared by the document template.

It would be very helpful to be able to look at a sample of cells in a Calc sheet
rather than guessing about abstract fields and supposing that one has found the
correct settings. Besides which, I don’t think there is any correlation to any
settings any where in the default page style to row and column sizes of a sheet
in Calc. I have tried everything including just saving the spreadsheet as a
template in hopes that somehow it will just save the current row and column
sizes as defaults.

Calc should have its own default page style instead of sharing it with Writer.