Comment 1 by andrewd (in reply to comment description) on 2015-03-05 04:13
The new facilities in Word are most valuable. Any chance of adding the ability to retrieve ones position on the page? Replying to andrewd:

There are times when it is important to know where on the page in a word processor file one is. That is, x centimetres from the left and y centimetres from the top. Unless I have missed it, Word does not provide this information succinctly and it would be a valuable addition to NVDA.

I still agree with adding this functionality, but a partial workaround for anyone searching for a way to do this in the meantime, you can add "vertical page position" to the status bar in Word (though not horizontal page position).

To show the vertical position on the status bar (this works in Word 2016 and may differ in earlier versions):

1. Ensure you are in Word
2. Press F6 to move to the status bar
3. Press the applications key to open the context menu
4. Press V to move to "Vertical page position".
5. Press ENTER to check this (note that if it is already checked, this will uncheck it).
6. Press the arrow keys to move around the status bar to read the options.
7. Press escape to move back to your document.
8. To read the status bar, press NVDA+end (in laptop layout, press NVDA+SHIFT+END).

This is a tricky one. From a technical stand point, we might be able to do something similar to how we calculate (guess at) the current column number. There is some related discussion on the following pull request: #6498

Including the vertical position on the status bar is a big help. Ideally, an NVDA hotkey would announce both vertical and horizontal positions.

This issue is fixed in 2018.4
cc: @Qchristensen

Fixed in #9008. Closing