How to 'unlock' table header rows in Microsoft Word?

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Published on 2009-06-06T18:25:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 23:33 UTC
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I have a Microsoft word 2003 document that contains a table. I have to edit the text in the header row of that table. However, I can't select it, nor select any text in these header cells.

Any idea how to 'unprotect' that table header row?

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