There's no way to turn the feature off. You can use programming to turn
off all the subtotals, as in the sample code he

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot03.html#Subtotals

jenn wrote:
is there a way to turn off the auto-subtotal when using pivot table fields? I
turned of the grand totals, but I still end up having to double click on the
column name and choosing none from the subtotals for every column.


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