Switch from iCloud backup to desktop PC

Hi
My wife's iPad was initially set up for iCloud backup (never connected to our Windows 7 PC), but now she's running out of free iCloud space, and we don't want to pay for extra storage. I want to switch to desktop backup through iTunes on our PC, but when I connect the iPad to the PC, the only options available are either to set up the device as a new iPad, or restore one of *my* backups from the PC. Because the device has never been backed up to PC, there is no option to restore an earlier version of her own configuration. Presumably this means that iTunes won't make a backup of her current installation, and everything on her iPad will be wiped whichever option I choose.
If that's correct, is there a way of accessing the iCloud backup of her iPad after the device has been set up as a new device, either through iTunes, or some other way, but without just going back to backing up via iCloud? I'm assuming that somewhere in the cloud there will be a complete backup of her current configuration even if she switches to desktop backup, but I don't know how to access this without having to revert to iCloud as the primary means of backup.
I hope I've explained this clearly enough... Many thanks for any help you can give.

Hi Japib
Thanks for your reply. Do you know of any way of forcing iTunes to back up my wife's device before setting it up as a new device, even if I'm not given the option of backing it up when I plug it in? (I should also mention that the File -> Devices -> Backup menu option is greyed out, so that's not possible.)
Does anyone have experience of using third-party software like iFunbox to copy as much as possible onto the desktop, then copying it back after setting the device up as a new iPad? I don't know whether this would capture everything, though.

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