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In my Mathematica, all my cells have the option "Evaluatable" unchecked by default enter image description here

Thus, if I want to prevent some cells to be executed, it is not possible because Evaluatable is already unchecked (but cells are still executed).

Why is it so ? Is it a strange comportment with my mathematica or there is something I misunderstood ?

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As the comment from @b3m2a1 suggested, this is what there is in the cell when I open it with SHIFT CTRL E :

    In[128]:= Cell[BoxData[
 RowBox[{"1", "+", "1"}]], "Input",
 CellChangeTimes->{{3.706802150710745*^9, 3.7068021512522154`*^9}}]

Out[128]= Cell[BoxData["2"], "Output",
 CellChangeTimes->{3.706802151784894*^9}]

I just wrote the code 1+1 and pressed enter (all of my cells have evaluatable unchecked so I wrote the simplest code to show it).

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  • $\begingroup$ Would you mind going to one of the cells where Evaluatable is supposed to be false, opening the cell expression via Shift-Ctrl-E, and copying everything that's in there into a code block in your question? That would, I think, help people understand what's going on. $\endgroup$
    – b3m2a1
    Jun 18, 2017 at 19:02
  • $\begingroup$ I edited. Thanks ! $\endgroup$
    – StarBucK
    Jun 18, 2017 at 19:18
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    $\begingroup$ What does CurrentValue[{StyleDefinitions, "Input", Evaluatable}] return? $\endgroup$
    – Carl Woll
    Jun 18, 2017 at 19:25
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    $\begingroup$ CurrentValue[{StyleDefinitions, "Input", Evaluatable}] returns True $\endgroup$
    – StarBucK
    Jun 18, 2017 at 19:28
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    $\begingroup$ If I select Input cell bracket the Evaluatable in menu is checked. $\endgroup$
    – Kuba ♦
    Jun 18, 2017 at 21:03

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Your question isn't completely clear, but I suppose that you are confused by the fact that "Output" cells have Evaluatable -> False but despite this they can be evaluated when you put the cursor inside such a cell and press Shift+Enter:

CurrentValue[{StyleDefinitions, "Output", Evaluatable}]

False

The reason is that such cells are auto-converted into "Input" cells when you edit them. But when you select the "Output" cell bracket and press Shift+Enter nothing happens because you haven't edited the cell and it has Evaluatable -> False.

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    $\begingroup$ Aaaaaah you are right !! In fact the input line has Evaluatable true but not the whole bracket which contains the input and the output !! I used to select the whole stuff. In fact I want to disable execution of a large part of code. Do you know if there is a way of selecting ONLY input cells in a huge bracket ? Because I would like to disable the evaluatable option on the inputs only $\endgroup$
    – StarBucK
    Jun 19, 2017 at 12:10
  • $\begingroup$ Well in fact If i click on evaluatable a first time, it will make the output evaluatable as the input already is. If I click a second time it will make unevaluatable both. But I would like to only apply this option on the input parts (so I need to select only input of my big bracket) $\endgroup$
    – StarBucK
    Jun 19, 2017 at 12:13
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    $\begingroup$ I'm glad that my guess is right. :) This probably can be done with a custom Palette. I don't think this is possible using only FrontEnd's menu items. $\endgroup$
    – Alexey Popkov
    Jun 19, 2017 at 12:17
  • $\begingroup$ Ok ok thank you. Yes well done you had the good intuition ;) $\endgroup$
    – StarBucK
    Jun 19, 2017 at 12:18

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