1. A system for electronically managing composite documents, comprising: a repository of electronically stored individual documents, where a subset of the individual documents are associated with other individual documents to form composite documents; a search tool for locating a selected individual document, where the selected individual document is associated with a selected composite document; and a selection tool for selecting a function to be applied to the selected individual document, where an option is provided to apply the function to other individual documents within the selected composite document, thereby allowing the selected individual document to be operated on individually or with the other individual documents within the selected composite document.