Calibrating Acrobat's on screen full page aspect ratio

I've had an issue with Acrobat since I started using it at around version 6 up through the current version on both the Mac and Windows that I've not been able to find an answer for though I have searched with all the search terms that I can think of.
At any rate, when viewing a document on screen in full page mode, the aspect ratio of the page is always somewhat off, being taller and narrower than it should be.  So, for example, an 8.5 x 11" page really looks a lot more like an A4 sized page than what it should look like.
Is there any way to calibrate Acrobat to do a better job at displaying the correct aspect ratio of a page on screen?
Thanks in advance for any assistance that you can provide.

Rave,
Thanks for the quick response.  I went to the actual size zoom level, but it was off quite a bit (too large).  I checked in the Preferences and found that the scaling factor was set to a custom value of 110 dpi for some reason.  I know that I didn't change it.  I reset it to the default of 96 dpi and the image was then very close to actual size.
I then got my ruler out to measure things and see where they were really at and amazingly enough they looked pretty good with the document that I had opened.  So, I opened the document that I had been looking at earlier and it looked really tall and narrow again.  Then I checked its properties and, low and behold, it was actually set to A4 size!  No wonder it looked that way.  The document is from one of our local companies that doesn't normally do anything internationally, so I was quite surprised.
In conclusion, after wiping the egg off of my face, my eyes were right, but the paper size was not what I was expecting and it threw me off.  So, all is well in Acrobat land!
Thanks again!

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