10. A method for controlling access rights of a network managed document located at a client, comprising: attempting to locally access the network managed document at the client via a document handler at the client, the network managed document, having been deployed in a network by a remote document manager, includes a plurality of data sections, each data section including content and section specific access rights for locally accessing and altering the included content of each data section, wherein the document handler attempts to access the network managed document through a proxy at the client between the network managed document and the document handler; responsive to attempting to access the network managed document at the client, automatically requesting access rights from the remote document manager by the proxy of the client to alter at least one of the data sections at the client; responsive to automatically requesting access rights, receiving access rights at the proxy of the client from the remote document manager for each of the plurality of data sections of the network managed document, the access rights allowing the client to alter the at least one data section in response to the requesting step; comparing, by the proxy, access levels associated with the network managed document against the received access rights at the client; granting, by the proxy, access to the at least one data section of the network managed document at the client based upon the results of the comparing step; and altering the at least one data section at the client via the document handler.
10. A method for controlling access rights of a network managed document located at a client, comprising: attempting to locally access the network managed document at the client via a document handler at the client, the network managed document, having been deployed in a network by a remote document manager, includes a plurality of data sections, each data section including content and section specific access rights for locally accessing and altering the included content of each data section, wherein the document handler attempts to access the network managed document through a proxy at the client between the network managed document and the document handler; responsive to attempting to access the network managed document at the client, automatically requesting access rights from the remote document manager by the proxy of the client to alter at least one of the data sections at the client; responsive to automatically requesting access rights, receiving access rights at the proxy of the client from the remote document manager for each of the plurality of data sections of the network managed document, the access rights allowing the client to alter the at least one data section in response to the requesting step; comparing, by the proxy, access levels associated with the network managed document against the received access rights at the client; granting, by the proxy, access to the at least one data section of the network managed document at the client based upon the results of the comparing step; and altering the at least one data section at the client via the document handler. 12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: receiving a management command from the document manager, wherein the management command includes data relating to the results upon that is used by the granting step; and locally and automatically performing at least one management action for the network managed document in accordance with the received management command, wherein said at least one management action automatically alters content of the deployed electronic document.