Multiple apple ID's - iCloud drive and google drive?

I've got a variety of apple devices and am trying to work out the best way to keep documents in sync across them all. The ideal solution would be to use iCloud drive but my macbook and iPhone are on one apple ID and my wife iPad and iPhone are on another. I'd like to keep them on separate apple ID's as we have different contact groups and don't want to see iCloud tabs for each other, etc. Plus backing up 4 devices to one iCloud account won't leave much space for anything else and when Microsoft give out 30gb, google give out 10gb the 5gb iCloud allowance is pretty poor.
At the moment we use google drive to store all our documents and just access this on our devices via the drive app. I'd really like to switch to using iCloud drive as it'll mean I can use iWork more than office but there just doesn't seem to be a way to keep documents in sync across multiple apple ID's. Google drive also doesn't cater for iWork file formats so I can't simply save everything in there and just copy over to iCloud drive.
Does anyone have any bright ideas? Are there any third party iOS apps that will let you access items stored in icloud drive? I'd also thought about trying to use automator or applescript to copy a few select documents over to iCloud drive and convert to the iWork formats but I'm quite new to all that so not very sure where to start.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I have a similar problem with this as well. For example, I like to keep the "contacts" of me and my spouse updated on both of our phones. In order for this to happen, I have to sign in to "icloud" on both devices & mac with my apple ID. It would be much better if this could be shared/combined with multiple devices as an option. I don't think "icloud drive" solve's this problem.

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El 30/01/2014, a las 12:07, Omke Oudeman <[email protected]> escribió:
Re: Bridge and Google DRIVE
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Product Name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC (DV7t-7000)
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:33 PM] -- Automatically generated message:
Your support request has been submitted and is in queue. Please wait momentarily while the system connects you with the next available support specialist.
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:46 PM] -- Automatically generated message:
You are now chatting with support specialist JOLLY R.
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:46 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
Welcome to HP Total Care for Notebook and Desktop support. My name is Jolly. I will be your technical support specialist today. Please give me a few moments to review your issue description details.
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How are you doing today ?
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:46 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:46 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
Great, you?
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:46 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
I am fine. Thank you for asking.
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:48 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
Please let me know if the following details are correct for the notebook in question.
PRODUCT NUMBER: A5F92AV
SERIAL NUMBER: {Private Information Removed}
EMAIL ADDRESS: {Private Information Removed}
Am I correct?
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:48 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
Yes
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:48 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:49 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:49 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:51 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:51 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
I few weeks ago now
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:52 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:53 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:53 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
Reimaged, renamed, removed, rotated them to different bays.
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ok
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Is the CD/DVD drive getting detected ?
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:54 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
Yes
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:54 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:55 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:55 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
I did, over and over and over
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:55 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:56 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
I have swapped out the dvd drive and hard drives
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:57 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
Box would contain- packaging material, shipping instructions & pre-paid shipping label.
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:57 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
In order to set up a service request please provide the following information:
* Full Name:
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* Apartment/Building/Mailstop:
* City:
* State:
* Zip/Postal Code:
* E-Mail address
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Dont I have on-site?
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:58 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
Let me check.
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:59 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
This laptop is my life, my livelyhood.
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:00 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
I do understand that .
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:02 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:02 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
As the notebook needs to be repaired , you have to send it to the HP service center.
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:02 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
It is the motherboard
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:03 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:03 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
It will be repaired and returned back to you .
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:04 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:04 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:04 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:05 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
What is the difference between repaired and replacing something... So you mean that nothing will be repaired on my laptop?
[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:06 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
This is NOT right
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:06 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:06 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:08 PM] -- Rick Friedman says:
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OK, thx
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[Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:09 PM] -- JOLLY R says:
Please take down the service ticket number {Private Information Removed} and SR ID {Private Information Removed} for future reference.
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No
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