Problems saving Pages documents

Hi our Mac has just started not letting us save Pages documents. We are not doing anything differently!
If you try to save a new document, after you've chosen the location, it comes up with a pop up saying "the file ... couldn't be opened"
Any ideas anyone? I've tried searching on here, but can't find anyone with the same problem...
I tried pasting in to a new doc and that doesnt work either.

Quit the app. From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ iCloud
Uncheck the box marked
Documents & Data
then check it again.
Relaunch the app. There will be a delay before your documents stored in iCloud reappear.
Credit for this solution to ASC member Kreklo.

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