When your PowerPoint
presentation is digitally signed and shared, it helps to validate your identity. At times, you may want to remove a digital
signature attached to your PowerPoint presentation. Why? Maybe you want it signed by someone else, you may want to use another
signature, or maybe there's no need for a particular presentation to be signed anymore. Follow these steps to remove the
digital signature from a PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 2013:
- Open the presentation that is digitally signed. Note that the open presentation will contain a yellow strip in the area
below the Ribbon and above the
Slide Area, as shown in Figure 1.
The yellow strip indicates that this presentation is attributed read-only to discourage modifications. Note that the text
message in the yellow strip reads Marked as Final; this is the same as the
Mark as Final option we explored in a previous
tutorial.

Figure 1: Presentation with a yellow strip above Slide Area
- Click the Edit Anyway button (highlighted in red within
Figure 1, above) within the yellow strip. This brings up the Microsoft PowerPoint window, as
shown in Figure 2. Within this window, click the Yes button to remove the signature in this
presentation and to enable editing.

Figure 2: Confirmation being asked to enable editing
- Alternatively, access the File menu, and choose the Info option to get to
Backstage view, as shown in
Figure 3 below. Thereafter, click the View Signatures button, highlighted in
red within Figure 3 below.

Figure 3: View Signatures button within the Info panel
You can also click the Signatures icon on the
Status Bar (highlighted in
blue within Figure 4).

Figure 4: Signatures icon displayed on the Status Bar
- Either way, this opens the Signatures
Task Pane, highlighted in
red within Figure 5.

Figure 5: Signatures Task Pane
- Within the Signatures task pane, place the cursor over the signature you want to remove to get a downward
pointing arrow next to the signature name, as shown in Figure 6, below. Click the downward arrow to bring up a
drop-down list. From this drop-down list, select the Remove Signature option (highlighted in
red within Figure 6).

Figure 6: Selected signature’s drop-down list
- This will open the Remove Signature window, as shown in Figure 7. Click the
Yes button to remove the selected signature.

Figure 7: Remove Signature window
- Make sure you save your presentation after removing the signature.
See Also:
Remove Digital Signatures from
PowerPoint 2010 for Windows