# StructuredSelection not working, why?

**URL:** <https://community.wolfram.com/t/structuredselection-not-working-why/7599>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** computer-science, algebra, interface-construction, computational-notebooks, raspberry-pi\
**Created:** [January 4, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/structuredselection-not-working-why/7599 "2016-01-04T23:03:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![michelecerulli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@michelecerulli](https://community.wolfram.com/u/michelecerulli)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/structuredselection-not-working-why/7599/1 "2016-01-04T23:03:26Z")

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Hello I need to use the attribute StructuredSelection in some cells but it does not seem to work. I need it to develope palettes for manipulating algebra expressions.

I tried either to change the cell properties, the notebook properties or the global properties, but in no case I succeeded having a cell with StructuredSelection working.  
I also tried to create a cell (with a code copied from a notebook I made few years ago, for which StructuredSelection worked with Mathematica 3.0), here is the code:

`NotebookWrite[InputNotebook\[\], Cell[BoxData["a+b*c"], "Input", CellGroupingRules -> { "SubSectionGrouping", 30}, CellEditDuplicate -> True, CellEvaluationDuplicate -> True, Evaluatable -> True, GeneratedCell -> True, StructuredSelection -> True, CellLabel -> "Inizio", ShowCellLabel -> True, CellLabelAutoDelete -> False]]`

With this code I get a cell with the content “a+b\*c” where it shouldn’t be possible to select “a+b”, but actually it is possible.

Could it be because I am using Mathematica on a Raspberry pi (Linux ARM (32-bit))? I hope that is not the case!

Thanks in advance for any help.

Michele