Pages simply will not open

Hi,
My apologies if this has been covered, but I'm at my wits end with my ipad 2.
I've updated to iOS7 a month ago and my iMac only yesterday to Mavericks. Now, Pages simply will not open on my iPad. I had no problems with pages until the Maverick upgrade. Until then, everything was hunky dory.
I have rebooted, restored my iPad 2 and deleted all my pages files from iCloud and still it will not open.
Pages will open however, once I set the preferences to local, no longer using iCloud on my iPad 2.
Naturally, this is far from ideal as I tend to finish work on my iPad 2 that I started on my iMac.
Do you have any idea why it's not working any longer?
Any help gladly welcome.
Tarmac.

Hi JimHdk,
Thank you for your recent help and advice. I had already tried a soft and hard reset of my ipad, along with a full restore. None of those helped sadly.
However, I did have some success yesterday.
I downloaded all the files from icloud to my iMac and then wiped iCloud clean. I connected my iPad to the iMac and then did another fresh restore of IOS7 and it seems to have cured the problem.
After the restore, I synced with iCloud and as there was nothing on it; it took no time at all. Then I added a file to icloud via the iMac and it appeared on my iPad 20 seconds later. It seems to be all working again, so perhaps it was just persistence on my part?
Either way, it now works. Try that qtrust and see if it works for you?
Thanks,
Tarmak

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