Have you tried turning off Autoformat table in the Table options?

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"Suresh" wrote in message
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Is there a way to suppress the borders automatically coming up whenever a
pivot table is refreshed. I have used both tabular and outline format. But
whenever I refresh the table a default set of borders automatically
appear. I
have turned on the preserve formatting in the Table options. Any ideas.