Desktop display too big to read. Help!

My friend has a G5. Her baby played with the keyboard and touched some keys and now her desktop image is huge, she can see only one word in the whole desktop. What happend? how does she fix that?
Any feedback? Thanks!!

Press the Command, Option, and - keys to make the screen smaller, and repeat as necessary. This happens because the zoom in feature has been activated.
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