Sharing documents using iCloud

I'm a LONGTIME MobileMe/.Mac user.  I loved that I could post documents in the iDisk and share them with others (I used it for family recipes!).  Is this possible with iCloud?

Thank you.  That's what I thought.  I have set-up Dropbox for all the family recipes so my grown children can easily access them without having to call me for them. 
I'm having a VERY hard time getting excited about iCloud other than it's free and I had to pay for MobileMe/.Mac. I have not yet upgraded my computer to Lion so I can't yet use it but will have to soon since MobileMe goes away in June.  I have a few programs I will lose and I'm not sure about my two printers - hope at least one will work with Lion.  I used MobileMe for SO many years - since it came out - and loved it.

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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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    1.a Nope, Data and Apps are independent of the Sim.
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  • TS3991 iWork doesn't seem to recognize that I already have the pages, keynote, and numbers apps so I can't use iCloud to sync my documents.  How to get my apps recognized?

    iWork doesn't seem to recognize that I already have the pages, keynote, and numbers apps so I can't use iCloud to sync my documents.  How to get my apps recognized?

    Do you have both the OS X and iOS versions of each of them?

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