ICloud Pages sync - where Pages documents end up on my Mac?

I'm relieved that all my Pages documents seem to still be on my iPad after the ios5 upgrade. And that the most recent ones are showing up in "recent" in Pages on my Mac.
And I'd appreciate knowing where the sync process will put any new documents that I create? And whether / how I can control where these get filed on my Mac (e.g., in Finder).
Thank you.
Glenda

If you sign up for a free iCloud account - your Pages documents will sync to that iCloud account - after you get everything set up. It does it automatically.
As far as the Mac - you could use the iCloud account to download those documents to your Mac, you can still use DropBox, or SugarSync cloud services or you can use file sharing - a feature of the iOS that has been available since version 4 I believe. If you use file sharing, you must connect your iPad to your computer - like we did in the good old days.
You can read this about file sharing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4094

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