L.1.7.2 Section Breaks

As well as specifying the section’s properties, the type of section break is specified using the type element. WordprocessingML supports four distinct types of section breaks:

Next page section breaks (the default if type is not specified), which begin the new section on the following page. Odd page section breaks, which begin the new section on the next odd-numbered page. Even page section breaks, which begin the new section on the next even-numbered page.

Continuous section breaks, which begin the new section on the following paragraph. This means that continuous section breaks might not specify certain page-level section properties, since they must be inherited from the following section. These breaks, however, can specify other section properties, such as line numbering and footnote/endnote settings.