Can't select headers in Word for Mac.

I'm using Word on all of my Macs due to submission requirements of my graduate program, and a document I'm creating has suddenly made headers unselectable. Posts from 2011 suggest checking Make Master Objects Selectable from the Format menu, but no such command exists. This is driving me crazy. Does anyone know how to access headers? It seems like I simply double-clicked in the header area before, but that's not working. Any help is greatly appreciated.

The problem is I can't select it. Perhaps I'm just losing my mind as a sleep-deprived grad student, but nothing I do puts the curser in there.

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