You can try this line which seems to work for me when the selection is on the page you are interested in (not in the footnote area)

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Many thanks, Guessed! It does work also for me, but I was expecting to find different values depending on the number of footnotes in the page. Instead I get the same value for every page of the document. My aim was to establish the VerticalPosition of the first line of the footnote in various contexts (normal first line, first line of a footnote continuation, first line with hyphenation, etc.). I thought I could do that in a simple way, because my present solution is rather complicated.