Specifying Multiplicity in a Visio Database (ERD) Diagram

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Is there a way to manually edit the cardinality/multiplicity symbols on the end of a database ERD made in Visio? The category I'm using is in Visio 2003 under Database -> Database Model Diagram

I want to be able to go from something like this:

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To this:

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The second graphic was done by manually adding the numbers, but I would prefer to just do it in Visio. Is there any way of accomplishing this?

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