Desktop moves all over

I just got on my mac mini in order to look something up, and the entire desktop moves around with the mouse. Yikes! The desktop is on some setting where it seems to be a close-up version, and it moves with the mouse. I have to move around on the desktop to access my control panel at the top of the screen or down to access my dock. Everything is large; the print, the icons, everything. It's terrible to work with like this.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about and how to "undo" whatever made it this way? I haven't been using my mac mini as much since I got my laptop, but my kids use it for their school projects. (They swear they didn't do anything to cause this to happen.) It is not like this on another users's side. It is my work computer, so it needs to be running properly.

Hi my3kidsmom-
I am glad that it worked for you.
Sorry I couldn't remember the key combination off of the top of my head at the time. This may be helpful one day
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
Thanks for the star!
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