how do i access my ipad clipbboard?

The clipboard is not visible nor is is accessible by you other than to paste content from it - into anywhere that the Paste feature will work. It hold whatever you have copied and works behind the scenes until you need to paste the content that it is holding for you - text, photo, Web page, etc.

boltonmami wrote:

So its not like there is something that is saving a whole bunch of stuff in a file or folder?

Correct. It is not a folder that saves lots and lots of information or files. It saves only the very last item .... line of text, photo, etc. that you saved by using the Copy feature - and it stores that information until the nect time that you use the copy feature again.

So if I accidentally copied and pasted the wrong one sentence text over all of the text that I wrote after cutting or copying and pasting the original LONG essay text online that I wrote on the Internet there is NO clipboard for me on an IPad 2 for me to find my LONG originally copied and pasted text? Even though I copied the whole thing and then accidentally copied something else, selected all, and pasted the wrong tiny item, replacing my LONG 3hour essay?

If you copied and pasted a 3 hour long essay and then ruined it by some mistake, what is to prevent you from copying and pasting it again?

Some apps, such as Pages, allows you undo your last move, a number of times, perhaps even indefinitely.