diff --git a/src/lib/import/docx.ts b/src/lib/import/docx.ts
index a1530e8..362e23e 100644
--- a/src/lib/import/docx.ts
+++ b/src/lib/import/docx.ts
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ function blockAttrs(ppr: Element | null, kind: BlockKind, headingLevel: number |
 
   if (kind === 'body') {
     const pb = fc(ppr, 'pageBreakBefore');
-    if (pb && wVal(pb) !== 'false' && wVal(pb) !== '0') attrs.breakBefore = 'page';
+    if (pb && onOff(pb)) attrs.breakBefore = 'page';
   }
 
   // Paragraph background ("colored field", w:shd) + per-side borders ("rule line", w:pBdr).
@@ -1461,7 +1461,8 @@ function docHasEvenOddHeaders(files: Record<string, Uint8Array>): boolean {
   const bytes = files['word/settings.xml'];
   if (!bytes) return false;
   try {
-    return !!parseXml(strFromU8(bytes)).getElementsByTagNameNS(W, 'evenAndOddHeaders')[0];
+    const el = parseXml(strFromU8(bytes)).getElementsByTagNameNS(W, 'evenAndOddHeaders')[0];
+    return !!el && onOff(el);
   } catch {
     return false;
   }
@@ -1489,7 +1490,8 @@ function parseSectPr(sect: Element | null, ctx: Ctx, oddEven = false): {
     : null;
 
   // Different first page: w:titlePg turns on the "first"-type refs for page 1.
-  const titlePg = !!fc(sect, 'titlePg');
+  const titlePgEl = fc(sect, 'titlePg');
+  const titlePg = !!titlePgEl && onOff(titlePgEl);
   const refId = (type: string, variant: 'default' | 'first' | 'even' = 'default') => {
     const ref = fcAll(sect, `${type}Reference`).find((r) => (r.getAttributeNS(W, 'type') ?? 'default') === variant);
     return ref?.getAttributeNS(R, 'id') ?? null;
diff --git a/tests/unit/docx-onoff.test.ts b/tests/unit/docx-onoff.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ac2a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/docx-onoff.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// OOXML toggles are ST_OnOff: the element being present does not mean "on", since
+// w:val="false"/"0"/"off" turns it off. Word and the docx lib both write the explicit
+// false form. jsdom (vitest `environment`) supplies the global DOMParser.
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { zipSync, strToU8 } from 'fflate';
+import { importDocx } from '../../src/lib/import/docx';
+
+const CT = `<?xml version="1.0"?><Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types">
+<Default Extension="xml" ContentType="application/xml"/>
+<Override PartName="/word/document.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.main+xml"/>
+</Types>`;
+
+const RELS = `<?xml version="1.0"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships">
+<Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument" Target="word/document.xml"/>
+</Relationships>`;
+
+const DOC_RELS = `<?xml version="1.0"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships">
+<Relationship Id="rH" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/header" Target="header1.xml"/>
+</Relationships>`;
+
+const W = 'xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"';
+const HEADER = `<?xml version="1.0"?><w:hdr ${W}><w:p><w:r><w:t>Running head</w:t></w:r></w:p></w:hdr>`;
+const DOCUMENT = `<?xml version="1.0"?><w:document ${W} xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships">
+<w:body><w:p><w:r><w:t>Body</w:t></w:r></w:p>
+<w:sectPr><w:headerReference w:type="default" r:id="rH"/><w:titlePg w:val="false"/></w:sectPr>
+</w:body></w:document>`;
+
+const settings = (val: string) =>
+  `<?xml version="1.0"?><w:settings ${W}><w:evenAndOddHeaders w:val="${val}"/></w:settings>`;
+
+const build = (settingsXml: string) => zipSync({
+  '[Content_Types].xml': strToU8(CT),
+  '_rels/.rels': strToU8(RELS),
+  'word/_rels/document.xml.rels': strToU8(DOC_RELS),
+  'word/document.xml': strToU8(DOCUMENT),
+  'word/header1.xml': strToU8(HEADER),
+  'word/settings.xml': strToU8(settingsXml),
+});
+
+describe('DOCX on/off toggles', () => {
+  it('reads an explicit false as off', () => {
+    const r = importDocx(build(settings('false')));
+    expect(r.header).not.toBeNull();
+    // Both off, so the one header repeats on every page instead of odd/even variants.
+    expect(r.differentOddEven).toBe(false);
+    expect(r.differentFirstPage).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('still reads a bare element as on', () => {
+    const r = importDocx(build(`<?xml version="1.0"?><w:settings ${W}><w:evenAndOddHeaders/></w:settings>`));
+    expect(r.differentOddEven).toBe(true);
+  });
+});