Collaborate on numbers document in iCloud drive?

Is it possible to collaborate on iCloud drive documents? My wife and I need to be able to both edit a numbers spreadsheet from our respective iOS devices. How do I do this? Everything I try seems to just make a local copy rather than editing the one in my iCloud storage.
Thanks!

For collaboration I think you need to be using the iCloud version of Numbers (in your respective browsers) and be signed into the same iCloud account. Haven't experimented with it recently, though, so that may have changed with Yosemite.
SG

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Disregard. It apparently took about 15 minutes for the sync to occur and now I'm seeing my iCloud documents on my iPad.

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First, to access documents you must use an app designed for that specific Document type. So Pages will not be able to open PDFs. The Documents app by Readdle can handle PDFs though. In the latter case, you'd open the app, click the menu icon at its top left, and click Open to go to your iCloud Drive. With Pages, if you had files outside the main Pages folder, click + then iCloud and navigate to the file's location.
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Would be a good idea to have an iCloud Drive app, JUST LIKE DROPBOX for fxsake. I want to organize things my way -- not be forced to use app-specific folders and a single layer of nesting. And if you're going to force that on me, then give me a Preview folder and TextEdit folder on iOS.

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The paragraph you quoted is referring to the other iCloud services for large media files: music, photos, movies, not iCloud Drive, which is meant for documents - a common storage for all your documents, updated across all devices.
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From my own experience you will see plenty of cloud symbols for files that will not download to your Mac.
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