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How to share documents with iCloud

08.10.2012
The new dream in computing is keeping all of your files in "the cloud," on remote servers that you can access from anywhere at any time. Apple's cloud-based syncing and storage service, iCloud, debuted in June 2011. Still, only since the release of OS X Mountain Lion that enough applications have started to support iCloud document syncing for this feature to be useful. Working with iCloud is fairly simple, but you need to know the ground rules if you plan to start storing your documents in the cloud.

If you don't have a free iCloud account, or if you're just starting out with it, will give you an overview of how to set up a new iCloud account. To store documents in the cloud--no matter which application puts its files there--you also need to activate the setting in the pane in System Preferences, as well as in the Settings of any iOS device you plan to use (to do so, select . Once you've done this, any iCloud-compatible app can store files in iCloud.

For now, only a limited number of applications can store files in iCloud. By I mean documents that you create, not data that an application such as Calendar stores in the cloud. On the Mac, many of Apple's apps do support iCloud, including Preview, TextEdit, the iWork '09 suite (, , and ), and .

Third-party apps that store documents in the cloud include text editors such as , , and ; the PDF editor ; the graphics editor ; and some others. At this point, compatible programs can produce files in Microsoft Office formats, but Microsoft Office itself doesn't support iCloud.