16. A network managed document comprising: a plurality of data sections, each section including content, wherein at least one of the plurality of data sections is a locked data section and at least one of the plurality of data sections is an unlocked data section; and a plurality of section-specific access levels, wherein access to locally alter any of the plurality of data sections at a client accessing the network managed document is selectively granted for the data sections based upon comparisons between the associated section-specific access levels and access rights granted to a proxy of the client by a remotely located document manager that has deployed the network managed document in response to a request from the proxy of the client to the remotely located document manager to locally access the network managed document sent by the client upon a document handler at the client attempting to access the locked data section, and wherein the request is not sent when the client access the unlocked data section, wherein the proxy operates between the document handler and the network managed document.
18. The network managed document of claim 16 , further comprising: a set of data containing access information and restrictions for the deployed electronic document as established in accordance with access rights granted by the document manager as of a period when a connection was last established with the document manager, wherein when a network connection between the networked managed document and the remotely located document manager is unavailable, the network managed document is able to be locally accessed in accordance with access information and restrictions contained within the set of data.