have a look at the attached demofile. click on the cells of the first two colums and all lines get lost except the ones from the header.
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#LyX 1.2 created this file. 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</cell> </row> <row topline="true" bottomline="false" endhead="false" endfirsthead="false" endfoot="false" endlastfoot="false" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard abs \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard Absolutwert \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="true" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula $-3$ \end_inset \SpecialChar ~ abs\SpecialChar ~ \begin_inset Formula $\rightarrow 3$ \end_inset \end_inset </cell> </row> <row 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</cell> </row> <row topline="true" bottomline="false" endhead="false" endfirsthead="false" endfoot="false" endlastfoot="false" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard atan \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard arcus tangens \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="true" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula $2$ \end_inset \SpecialChar ~ \begin_inset Formula $45$ \end_inset \SpecialChar ~ \begin_inset Formula $atan\rightarrow 2.5448$ \end_inset \end_inset </cell> </row> <row topline="true" bottomline="true" endhead="false" endfirsthead="false" endfoot="false" endlastfoot="false" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="true" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="0pt" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \end_inset </cell> </row> </lyxtabular> \end_inset \the_end