Can I use iCloud as a 'dropbox' type drive for backing up files?  If yes, how do I access it?

I have a 20 GIG Mobile Me, now ICloud, plan that is about to renew.  I would like to be able to back up some of my documents to this drive and access them as necessary.  Does iCloud work like this?  How do I access backed up information.  I just don't see it in the tutorials etc
Thank you for any thoughts

If you setup the Finder's Sidebar preferences so that the iCloud Drive is visible in it:
you can add additional folders with files to it as shown in this screenshot:
which sync up to iCloud as
You won't be able to open the files online like you can with the Numbers, Pages, etc. files but they will be available to other Macs for use.

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