Can't Open Numbers spreadsheets in iCloud

I'm hoping someone can help me ... I have some numbers spreadsheets saved in iCloud. When I go to open them, it says that the file can't be opened, whether I try to access it from my Mac or from the Icloud website. I was able to get a preview of some of the documents so at least i can start over, but one document is password protected and I can't get it to open. I've tried saving it to my desktop, changing the extension, looking at the permissions, and no luck. This is so frustrating! I do have a time machine back up but since this is stored on the cloud I'm not sure if it would have saved a file on the machine.
Any advice appreciated, I saved things on iCloud to ensure that if my computer crashed I'd still have access and it seems that was not the right thing to do!
Thanks much.

Library > Mobile Documents > com~apple~Numbers normally wouldn't show up in a Spotlight search. But you should be able to find it in Finder by holding down the option key and choosing Library from the Go menu.
If it's not there then that suggests you haven't been successful in activating iCloud sync on your Mac. You might check setttings in two places in System Preferences > iCloud.
Documents and Data must be checked:
AND, after clicking 'Option...', this Numbers.app must be checked:
If these two boxes are both checked and you're still having trouble then try signing out of iCloud and back in.
SG

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I have a dokument stored in iCloud that I can't open from Numbers on my mac.
In Norwedigen: Filen (The file name) kunne ikke åpnes.
In English: The file (the filename) could not be opened.
I can open the file if I go to iCloud.com and use the beta version of numbers there.
The new version (3.2.2) of Numbers were installed in 24 aug 2014 on my mac.
Is there a bug here?

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