Remove a Watermark from a PowerPoint File
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The short answer
PowerPoint has no watermark button, so a watermark is a shape or picture placed on a slide or on the slide master. Add your .pptx file below. Shapes called a watermark are deleted, and you can also type its words to remove a shape that is only that text.
Use this only on files that are yours, or when the owner has said you may remove the mark. Taking a watermark off someone else's work to use it as your own, or to avoid paying for it, can break copyright law.
What it can and cannot remove
- Word and PowerPoint: a watermark added with the program's own watermark feature is deleted cleanly, and nothing else in the file changes.
- PDF: a watermark the file marks as one, a layer called Watermark, and watermark notes are deleted, and the text stays text. A mark that was painted into the page can only be cleaned as a picture.
- Photos and scans: a pale mark on a plain page can be whitened, and a marked part can be filled in from its surroundings. On faces, text or busy patterns the fill can look smudged. It is not AI and cannot bring back what was hidden under the mark.
- Passwords and locked files are not opened. Everything stays on your device.
Your files stay on your device. This tool runs entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded to a server.
How to: Remove a Watermark from a PowerPoint File
- 1Choose your PowerPoint file. Older .ppt files must be saved as .pptx first.
- 2Type the watermark's words if you know them, such as DRAFT.
- 3Press Remove the watermark. To also clear logos from the slide master, tick that box.
- 4Download the file and open it to check every slide.
At a glance
- File type
- .pptx (not the older .ppt)
- Looks in
- Slides, layouts and the slide master
- Words rule
- Removes a shape that is only the words, not a sentence
Frequently asked questions
Where is the watermark in PowerPoint itself?
Usually on the slide master. Open View, then Slide Master, click the shape and press Delete. This tool does that across the whole file in one go.
Why were my logos removed too?
You ticked the option to clear every picture from the slide master and layouts. Leave it off to remove only shapes named as a watermark or matching the words you typed.