Trying to put my pages docs on iCloud

i got a macbook pro back in july of 2009. i have recently updated it so it is now running on lion. i have turned on icloud and i am trying to put some of my pages documents into icloud. i go onto icloud.com and i click on iworks. i only have 2 options: learn more and something that says download pages for ios. i tried to manually drag documents onto the screen. it starts to download and then it says that there was a problem and that's all that it says. what is wrong and how can i fix it? i am about to start college and i really need to figure out how i will be able to work on documents on my iphone and my ipad when i get it later this month.

Welcome to the Apple community.
To be able to use documents at iCloud.com, you need at least one iOS device that uses the same account with at least one of the iWork apps installed.

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Here is some information on how to get a document from your iDevice to iCloud (which means you need to have the iOS version of Pages installed on your iPad or iPhone:
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/documents/
And here is a slew of other help articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.psp.more&locale=e n_US&q=Documents%20in%20the%20Cloud
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I'm finding the information so ambiguous - even down to how to open up the iCloud folder!

You're a star Carolyn, thank you! A line far more useful than anything I found through google searches! Have a wonderful day

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