Transparent table borders

Hi.
I'm working in InDesign with a House Style that uses a particular table layout: tinted solid colour cells with paper coloured borders of 1mm. Some cells are also paper coloured which works well to break up the table making the layout less 'heavy' and 'blocky'.
Setting the table borders to white (paper) works fine most of the time but came the occasion last month when I would have liked to put a background picture on the page behind the table. I had to abandon the picture in the end.
So what I need is a way to make the cell borders transparent but retain the 1mm transparent gap between every cell, some of which are also transparent and most have a solid fill.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

I have 2 but I think it would be least bit helpful here because table is aleady been created but lets see...
Method one:-
Make the Rectangle and then use the script "Make Grid" , put the gutter space as 1mm , and rows and cloums equal to what is required in the table.
Copy and paste the content from the table to the text boxes created from the script.
Method two(will work if solid fill is done in few cells only):-
Select the complete table , under "cell options" change the "cell fill" to "None"
complete table shall be selected , under "cell options" , apply the stroke type "thin-thin" with "6 pt" with the "gap color" :- NONE and stroke color "Black"
also change the "cell inset" to "0 mm"
now de-select the table ,
select any one cell on which you want to apply the solid fill and follow the below step:-
   a) Table-->Insert table , row 1 and column 1
   b) re-size embedded table according to the cell size
   c) Fill the color in the embedded table in the cell
After this copy and paste this in all cell in which you want the solid fill.
again in this text will be the problem when copying and pasting the embedded table.
Hint:- steps taken from Indesignsecrets.com
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