Pages in iCloud cannot edit a converted MS Word to Pages file

For our monitoring program we use some MS Word documents converted to Pages. Using the local Pages app these converted to Pages file works perfectly on our Mac. Life is good.
What we cannot do is edit with the Safari iCloud Pages. It appears these forms were created using MS Word Tables. Yes it opens, but the body of the form is a table, wherein the entire table border is highlighted in blue thus we cannot edit the table as we can using the local Pages.
Other than recreating this and other forms is there something we can do? We want others to be able to fill in these forms from within iCloud Pages in their browser.
MBP, Mavericks.
Cordially,
RicD

The following is from an older post:
You can do this from icloud.com (using a web browser on a Mac or PC). iCloud.com will give you the choice to download a Pages document as a Pages, PDF or Word document.
Please read Apple's Support document titled iCloud: Get documents stored on icloud.com.
HOWEVER, while I can download a word file on icloud as a word file, one of my Pages files can only come back as a Pages file. Perhaps the advice above is no longer appropriate given the changes on iCloud.

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