Slide size shrinks by itself

I have made a dozen or so presentations that I use a lot. I find sometimes that when I open a presentation I haven't used in a while that it has shrunk in size. The most recent one I used said that it was a custom size (720 x 540 I believe). I changed it back to a larger size and things rescaled fine.
My question is this. Is there a known bug where something causes slides to shrink? I would never use anything as small as a 800 x 600 or similar but I see small numbers like that showing up. Part of the problem is I don't see it happening. Could it be that connecting to a low resolution projector sets the size of the slide to a smaller value? Perhaps I inadvertently saved a file after presenting it. Any other ideas about what 'pilot error' I am performing? Perhaps this was an effect of a version change in Keynote where opening a file created with an earlier version causes this change?
Also, I will add that I have seen the problem described earlier where a slide will not scale back up after it has been set to a smaller size. Fortunately, I have not lost anything as I keep backups I can use in case a file gets corrupted like this.

Are you bringing in anything from a PowerPoint presentation?
Not sure what's causing it, but one thing you could do to try to highlight the problem is LOCK the file. This way, anytime you try to change it, you'll get a window popping up telling that you can't and that will help you determine at what point the file is being changed.
Save off an original and compare it after a few days to see what the differences are.

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Hi, this is the first question I've ever posted in an online discussion group (I can't afford to pull out any more hair).
Brief background: I'm using Keynote to assemble a presentation for an annual architectural design awards program; this is my first time in six years not using PowerPoint, one of many reasons being that I could never manually adjust slide orientation but rather had to go with 100% portrait or landscape. The images that firms submit are always a mixed bag of horizontal and vertical images and it's a pain having to resize half (read: 500) of them -- plus I always get a few complaints that I've compromised the clarity of their professionally-photographed building details. bah!
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Welcome to the discussion board, weirhaus.
I'm not sure I really understand your question. Keynote can't set sizes for individual slides, but this shouldn't be a problem. All projectors have a "native" orientation of landscape, and a native resolution (800 X 600, 1024 X768, etc.). This is just like your computer monitor. Changing the orientation of the slides in Keynote will not change the resolution or orientation of the projector itself (just as it wouldn't change your monitor's orientation or resolution), and orienting the slides as portrait will only mean that you are cutting off the sides of the display -- it would be exactly equivalent to simply putting the same image onto a black landscape slide of the same height as the "portrait" slide.
As for the "clarity" of the images, the resolution you have to work with is the resolution of the projector -- if you project a 4000 pixel tall image on a projector with a native height of 768 pixels, you will necessarily lose some resolution, and there is very little that can be done.
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1
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Rocketscience,
welcome to the Keynote Discussions.
Well, I think the border around the two slides I print is just enough to punch and file the paper.
Oh, wait, I'm using [DIN] A4 format. Well, try this:
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dropdown box and set "Pages per Sheet" to 2
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