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JustMe'D From what I gather, you can access certain folders that are in your iCloud Drive via the Word app, but unless they are docx files, you cannot open those files. Furthermore, I'm not even sure if you can use the Word app to save to your iCloud Drive. I don't have Excel installed but I *assume* the experience is the same.
Thanks! There's not a lot of help online and the help within the app is non existent! Perhaps it's the fact like you say that Pages isn't saving to iCloud Drive in a compatible format.
All the reviews I've read state that word and excel can not save to iCloud as well as read from but I can't get this to happen so I wonder if one of the websites got it wrong and the rest have just followed their lead. With iOS devices and apps there's nothing that will cause a variation between units unlike a PC so I can't imagine it's just mine that doesn't allow saving to iCloud.
I do think it's really poor that if you save a document to iCloud using Pages regardless of whether you chooses the .page extension or even the specific word file save as feature it won't open in word by selecting the file on iCloud BUT if you choose the open in option within Pages it opens perfectly within Word or Excel!