Abstract: Paragraph management software with a paragraph authoring workstation, the workstation capable of integrating directly with desktop word processing software to create individual paragraph components, a paragraph server, the server capable of coordinating data flow between virtual objects and responding to requests to perform operations on those objects, the virtual objects including a selection of paragraphs or other document fragments such as charts or graphs, the virtual objects flowing to and from desktop applications, back-office sources, external databases and the like, a paragraph viewer, the said viewer being accessible to the user via an icon appearing on the user's desktop section of his or her computer screen, said viewer giving the user access to any paragraph servers that are available on said user's system, said user having access to any number of virtual publications, virtual documents or virtual paragraphs that are available to the user depending on the user's security privileges, said security