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.