Footnotes in Pages

Hi, I'm trying to make alphabetic footnotes in pages, as my endnotes are numeric, and this is the format my lecturer has said they need to be in. But I cannot for the life of me find an option to make my footnotes carry letters instead of numbers, an i really don't know how else I would be able to go about doing things otherwise. Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated

I never found a way to change the notes numbering.
My own tip would be to create small text boxes in which I would insert the needed letter.
Of course, it must be done when the doc is ready to distribute.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 19 avril 2010 18:37:51

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