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Left your Mac or iOS device behind? Much of what you can do with iCloud can be carried out with a web browser
> iWork for iCloud The online iWork apps help you to stay productive with just a browser
By saving iWork documents to iCloud Drive rather than your Mac or iOS device’s storage, you have the option of working on them in a web browser on any computer. There are some limitations, such as the fonts you can work with, but the web apps substitute others, and your original choices are reinstated when a doc is reopened on a Mac or iOS.
The browser-based versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote also enable you to work on shared files: click the center icon at the top of the Document Picker to see files others have shared with you. To share one of your own, right-click it, then choose Collaborate from the menu. You can add a password and specify whether the recipient can edit or only view the file. By collaborating on documents in this way, you can keep a single copy in existence, rather than emailing copies between participants and having to keep track of which is the latest version. Make sure your name is specified so your changes are correctly attributed: Open a shared document, click the spanner icon, pick Preferences and check Author Settings.
Even in documents you’re working on in isolation, the iWork for iCloud apps track your changes, just like the Mac and iOS apps, though the interface for browsing older versions is less refined. Reinstate an earlier version by right-clicking the document and choosing Browse All Versions, select one in the list, then click Restore. Unfortunately there’s no preview, as there is on the Mac and iOS versions.
Should you need a printout, click the spanner and choose Print to make a PDF, which opens in your browser, then use the browser’s Print command.