VoiceOver to read text/content...how?

I am completely baffled about how to use VoiceOver...
What I want to do is have voiceover read the text of a IWork 09 Pages (or PDF) document. By text, I mean the content, the story, the paragraphs. I don't care about anything else.
How do you do this? When I start voice over, it always starts reading from the beginning of the document, not where my cursor is.
Command F5 would not turn on/off voice over, so I switched it to cmd5 and it works. why?
In pages, you can right click and choose to speak the highlighted text. This is differnt than voice over, right? It does not seem as good a quality.
VoiceOver mentions a voiceover cursor, but I don't see it and don't understand what it is?
Thanks,
bob

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Also in Leopard, you could select all text—even long passages—and the entire piece would be read (red) back. In Snow Leopard, it will inexplicably squeak and stop reading until you mark the text again, at which point it will read another paragraph or two and stop. I'm sure there is way around this, but VoiceOver in Leopard required no learning curve. It was easy to use.
VoiceOver in Leopard was an easy, streamlined way to get text-to-speech. VoiceOver in Snow Leopard is not and makes me believe that this is not its intended use.

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Yes,
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