How to edit a data merge field in a 'header'?

Hi All,
I'm trying to figure out how to edit the green bar so I can replace <<Expertise>>-<<Expertise>> with a different field from my excel data source. I want to replace it with the Category field in the Data Merge box but I cannot seem to edit that green bar.
Help! Thanks in advance,
Mark

Actually you were right, it was being inherited by the master page. And the 'live' page we were working on was unable to delete it. When I went to the master page, I deleted the << >> and it deleted it from the live page.
Now when I put in the <<category>> on the master page, it shows on the live page. For some reason my data rows are not displaying multiple records to a page now (shows only 1 per page so I've got 117 pages!), but ill try to figure out what happened.
Thanks!!

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