Pages "document can't be opened"... Important document! Please help...

I made a document in pages this morning and attempted to open it just now, but it says "document can't be opened". I have tried restarting the app and ipad, nothing seems to work. I can't email it to myself either, because it can't create an email or export the document because the 'creating email,page just loads forever. I need this important document ASAP, please, do you have any suggestions? The app and my ipad 2 are both updated.
Thank you!

When this has happened to me, I have never been able to successfully open the document.
Have you tried going to iCloud.com and see if you can open the file on your computer? If that doesn't work, more than likely the document isn't going to open. It's corrupt for some reason, and without being able to get into the file, there is no way to email it or change the format as you already know,

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I Have a lot of important documents in there that I use every day. Every time time I finish editing one of them, I always sync it to iCloud, to make sure it's backed up safely.
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