To reproduce:

Create a RadPivotGrid with some data and export it by following the article http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/pivotgrid-export-to-excel.html Set the following settings to the exporter:

exporter.ShowGridLines = true;
exporter.ExportVisualSettings = true;
exporter.HeaderCellsFont = new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 8);
exporter.DataCellsFont = new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 8);
exporter.GridLinesColor = Color.Black;
exporter.CellBackColor = Color.White;
exporter.SheetName = this.ClientManager.CubeEngine.Title;
exporter.ExportFlatData = false;


Also subscribe to the PivotExcelCellFormatting event use the following code:

e.Cell.TextAlignment = ContentAlignment.MiddleRight;
e.Cell.DrawBorder = true;
e.Cell.BorderColor = Color.Black;
e.Cell.DrawText = true;
e.Cell.DrawFill = true;


You will see that the exported cells will not have borders, nor their font will be changed. Additionally, if you set a specific ForeColor, BackColor, it is not applied as well.