Can't open documents in iCloud

I am suddenly unable to open any iWork documents stored in iCloud on My Mac.  (This is true for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) Every time I try, I get an error message saying "The file "filename" could not be opened."
Pages (and Numbers and Keynote) are up-to-date on both my Mac and on my iPad.  I can access the documents from my iPad, and I can download them from iCloud.com and then work on them on my Mac, but I cannot open the iCloud copies directily.
I've made sure that I'm working with the new versions of iWork apps, not the '09 version that are still on my Mac. 
This seems to have started with the latest round of updates to the iWork apps, but I could be wrong about the timing.
Any ideas about how to solve this?

Pages 5.01 will not open Pages 5.1 files and people are reporting that Pages 5.1 will on occassion not open its own files.
Currently nobody has a clue what to do about it except: Don't touch Pages with a bargepole!
Use your previous iWork apps.
Peter

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