Can't read on-screen documents in Pages or Numbers, but they print correctly.  Any suggestions?

Shortly after installing Yosemite on my iMac I had a system malfunction which meant the OS had to be re-installed.  Since then I have not been able to read any iWorks documents, Pages or Numbers, on the screen, nor produce any new documents.  The font colour is set to black and it doesn't make any difference if I enlarge the font or change the colour; I am still left with a blank screen.  The same goes for Pages and Numbers documents downloaded from my external hard disc.  Bizarrely, the documents print out perfectly.  Has anyone any idea how I can get round this problem?  Ted Cox

Purplehiddledog wrote:
I do backup with iCloud.  I can't wait until the new iMac is available so that I can once again have my files in more than 1 location without needing to rely solely on the cloud. 
I also rely on iTunes and my MacBook and Time Machine as well as backing up to iCloud. I know many users know have gone totally PC free, but I chose to use iCloud merely as my third backup.
I assume that the restore would result in my ability to open Pages and Numbers and fix the problem with deleting apps, but this would also mean that if my Numbers documents still exist solely within the app and are just not on iCloud for some reason that they would be gone forever.  Is that right?
In a word, yes. In a little more detail.... When you restore from an iCloud backup, you must erase the device and start all over again. There is no other way to access the backup in iCloud without erasing the device. Consequently, you are starting all over again. Therefore, it would also be my assumption that Pages and Numbers will work again and that the deleting apps issues would be fixed as well.
If the documents are not in the backup, and you do not have a backup elsewhere, the documents could be gone forever.

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