How do I delete all existing digital signatures in Adobe Acrobat?

There must be a way to do it. Can anyone assist? Thank you.

Thanks so much  for the detailed explanation!
Let me give a little more detail and better explanation of what  I have done.
1.      I digitally signed (with a digital id” I had created) a document to be filed with an agency.
2.      This “signature” ( digital id) had information that included my name, time, date and an acrobat watermark in red.
Essentially typed information that proved the document came from my computer (me?).
3.      I was informed that I would have to sign in ink, scan  to PDF, and upload  it to them, or
4.      Create a “digital signature” that had my name, address, phone, fax, email, etc., and upload that to them.
5.      I tried to create such a digital signature (after reading your email perhaps I was off base a bit) without success- the place I was attempting this using “PKCS#12 digital ID File”  but it allowed only limited information to be input and required a password.
6.      I then deleted  my old digital id in “security settings” in order to again try to create a new digital “signature” using the “PKCS#12 digital ID File” format.
7.      I now am still attempting to create a new digital “signature” and when I get to the last set up page for the “PKCS#12 digital ID File”  (where it asks for a file location and password “for your new digital ID file”), by selecting “add digital id” and hit the bullet for “a new digital id I want to create now.” In the last page of these creation pages there is a “file name” box and a “password” box.
I think this is asking for my forgotten password which I cannot remember. If it was asking for a new password, I recall two password boxes to insure the password it typed correctly.
So I am stuck, I cannot create a new “digital id”  which I thought was a digital “signature” and have deleted my old digital id.
In the past I have use a scanned “signature”  as in read below but became afraid it could be manipulated in some fashion  in important documents and that is why I started using the digital id  in Acrobat X, which I thought was a digital “signature”.
So, how far off base am I?  What do I do now that I have deleted my digital id in security settings?
Thanks so much for your help.
Roger

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