Border with multirow and multicolumn

Question

Following example:

usepackage{multirow}

begin{tabular}{cc|c|c|c|c|c|}
cline{3-7}
& & multicolumn{5}{c|}{something}  cline{3-7}
& & AAA & BBB & CCC & DDD & EEE hline
multicolumn{1}{|c|}{multirow{3}{*}{rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{sth}} } 
& line 1 & x & x & x & x & x  cline{2-7}
& line 2 & x & x & x & x & x  cline{2-7}
end{tabular}

Why is the border on the left side missing?

Why can I not make the columns fixed width (like c{4cm})? this gives me an error message ' Illegal pream-token (2.0cm): `c' used.' but I am pretty sure it has worked for me like this...

Bernard · Accepted Answer

Here is a solution. I took the opportunity to improve the vertical padding of cells, and defined a nocell command to have a number of empty cells; its argument is the number of consecutive empty cells.

documentclass[a4paper]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry}
usepackage{multirow}
usepackage{array, makecell, rotating}
setcellgapes{2pt}
newcommandnocell[1]{multicolumn{#1}{c|}{}}

begin{document}

makegapedcells
begin{tabular}{|c*{6}{|p{2cm}}|}
  cline{3-7}
  nocell{2}& multicolumn{5}{c|}{something}  cline{3-7}
  nocell{2} & AAA & BBB & CCC & DDD & EEE hline
  multirowcell{2}[0.5ex]{rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{sth}} & line 1 & x & x & x & x & x  cline{2-7}
 & line 2 & x & x & x & x & x  cline{1-7}
end{tabular}

end{document}

F. Pantigny · Answer

You can easily draw such table with {NiceTabular} of nicematrix. In that environment, you use Block to merge cells (both horizontally and vertically) and you use hvlines-except-corners=NW to draw all the rules excepted in the blocks and in the corner NW.
documentclass{article}

usepackage{nicematrix}

begin{document}
setlength{extrarowheight}{2pt}
begin{NiceTabular}{ccccccc}[hvlines-except-corners=NW]
& & Block{1-5}{something}  
& & AAA & BBB & CCC & DDD & EEE 
Block{2-1}<rotate>{sth}
& line 1 & x & x & x & x & x  
& line 2 & x & x & x & x & x  
end{NiceTabular}
end{document}

You need several compilations (because nicematrix uses PGF/Tikz).

Border with multirow and multicolumn

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