I didn't have to close out of footnotes for the one I just created. I simply selected page layout (alt+v p, or arrowed down the view menu till I got to page layout) to read both the text and any footnotes created. I took Word training with a sighted trainer and discovered that Jaws doesn't read both footnotes and text in normal view, but does in page layout view. Hope this works for you. - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
