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My goal was to easily frame a column of a tabular with a rectangle. I found a good answer here. So I tried to adapt it to my use case and that worked:

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{slashbox}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xparse}

\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\newcommand{\tikzmark}[1]{\tikz[overlay,remember picture] \node (#1) {};}
\newcommand{\DrawBox}[3][]{%
    \tikz[overlay,remember picture]{
        \draw[black,#1]
        ($(#2)+(-0.0em,0.5ex)$) rectangle
        ($(#3)+(0.75em,0.0ex)$);}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|l|ccccccc|}
    \multicolumn{3}{c}{}\tikzmark{c1}\\
    \hline
    \backslashbox{$v$}{$k$} 
    & 1        & 2    & 3    & 4    & 5        & 6    & 7      \\
    \hline
    1 & 7(1)    & 4 & - & - & -     & 5    & -  \\    
    2 & 7(4)    & -    & 2    & - & 6(4)    & - & 1  \\
    3 & -        & -    & -    & 3    & 6(3)    & -    & -     \\
    \hline
    \multicolumn{3}{c}{}&\tikzmark{c2}\\
\end{tabular}
\DrawBox[ultra thick, black]{c1}{c2}

\end{document}

The result looks like I expected it to look:

what it's supposed to look like

But when I tried creating a custom environment (as I have to repeatedly use this trick) I get a weird error.

Misplaced \omit. \end{tabularHighlighted}

When I place an ampersand or a newline in front of the multicolumn the error disappers but leaving the cell empty is no solution as the frame of the tabular will then be drawn around that cell.

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{slashbox}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xparse}

\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\newcommand{\tikzmark}[1]{\tikz[overlay,remember picture] \node (#1) {};}
\newcommand{\DrawBox}[3][]{%
    \tikz[overlay,remember picture]{
        \draw[black,#1]
        ($(#2)+(-0.0em,0.5ex)$) rectangle
        ($(#3)+(0.75em,0.0ex)$);}
}
\NewDocumentEnvironment{tabularHighlighted}{mm}
{
    \begin{tabular}{#1}
    \multicolumn{#2}{c}{}\tikzmark{c1}\\
}
{
    \multicolumn{#2}{c}{}&\tikzmark{c2}\\
    \end{tabular}
    \DrawBox[ultra thick, black]{c1}{c2}
}

\begin{document}


\begin{tabularHighlighted}{|l|ccccccc|}{3}
    \hline
    \backslashbox{$v$}{$k$} 
   & 1        & 2    & 3    & 4    & 5        & 6    & 7      \\
    \hline
    1 & 7(1)    & 4 & - & - & -     & 5    & -  \\    
    2 & 7(4)    & -    & 2    & - & 6(4)    & - & 1  \\
    3 & -        & -    & -    & 3    & 6(3)    & -    & -     \\
    \hline
\end{tabularHighlighted}

\end{document}

Update

Here's the log with \listfiles for anyone wondering

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("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\l3kernel\l3unicode-data.def"
File: l3unicode-data.def 2015/03/01 v5544 L3 Unicode data
)
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\l3kernel\l3pdfmode.def"
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\l__driver_color_stack_int=\count130
))
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)
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\pgf\frontendlayer\tikz\librarie
s\tikzlibrarycalc.code.tex"
File: tikzlibrarycalc.code.tex 2013/07/15 v3.0.0 (rcs-revision 1.9)
)
.................................................
. LaTeX info: "xparse/define-environment"
. 
. Defining environment 'tabularHighlighted' with sig. 'mm' on line 24.
.................................................
 (template_Article2.aux)
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 26.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 26.

ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros
("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\context\base\supp-pdf.mkii"
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
\scratchcounter=\count136
\scratchdimen=\dimen182
\scratchbox=\box52
\nofMPsegments=\count137
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)
LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font)              <7> on input line 29.
LaTeX Font Info:    External font `cmex10' loaded for size
(Font)              <5> on input line 29.

! Misplaced \omit.
\multispan ->\omit 
                   \@multispan 
l.38     \end{tabularHighlighted}

I expect to see \omit only after tab marks or the \cr of
an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case.

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Weirdly I suddenly got an error message that miktex was missing some dll so I reinstalled miktex and now the error does not reappear.

  • you had very old packages eg expl3-code from 2015 but one on ctan was from this year, the updaye presumably gave you consistent set of packages – David Carlisle Jun 09 '17 at 17:13