Remove Bookmarks from Audio Clips in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

After adding a Bookmark to an audio clip, you may want to edit or remove the Bookmark altogether. In PowerPoint you can't edit a Bookmark -- for example, you cannot change the time of your Bookmark from 30 seconds to 28 seconds. To achieve this change, you have to delete the earlier Bookmark, and then add a new Bookmark on the time position that you want.

Note: A Bookmark for an audio clip is a saved time position within the Player Control bar (highlighted in red within Figure 1, below) of the clip.

Follow these steps to learn how to remove a selected Bookmark from an audio clip:

Open your presentation, and navigate to the required slide where you have already inserted an audio clip. If your audio clip has no Bookmarks added, go ahead and add a Bookmark. The audio clip that you see in Figure 1, below has four bookmarks added -- notice the white dots that represent these bookmarks within the red highlighted area.

Figure 1: Audio clip with multiple Bookmarks added
Now, within the Player Controls bar, click on the Bookmark that you want to remove. Note that if you place your cursor over the Bookmark you can see the Bookmark's name and time position in a tool tip (see Figure 2, below). A selected Bookmark is indicated by a yellow dot, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2.

Figure 2: Selected bookmark within the Player Controls bar
With your Bookmark selected, click on the Audio Tools Playback tab and then click the Remove Bookmark button, highlighted in red within Figure 3, below.

Figure 3: Remove Bookmark button within the Bookmarks group

Note: Do not press the Delete key on your keyboard -- that will delete the entire audio clip from your slide!
This removes the Bookmark from the audio clip, as shown in Figure 4. If you removed this Bookmark by error, quickly undo the last step by pressing Ctrl+Z.

Figure 4: Selected bookmark removed
Make sure you save your presentation often.