Desktop moving around within screen

Looks like I might have pressed the wrong keys somewhere. The size of the desktop image has become about 2 ins. larger than the size of the screen so that, when I move on the trackpad, the whole screen image including all the programs on it moves around. So, if I circle my finger on the trackpad, the whole desktop and everything on it circles too. I have gotten over the sea-sick feeling now but I was trying to use Grab and it kept selecting a different area of the screen to the one I thought I was selecting which would indicate there is a mismatch between where Grab thinks the pointer is and where it actually is. I have tried adjusting the screen resolution to no effect and looked everywhere I can think of so I would really appreciate it if anyone knows how to cure this. Thank you.
Love and light to all Mac users
Dec

Go into System Preferences and under Universal Access and the Seeing tab, set Zoom to off.
You will also see that Option-Command-= is the key combo you must have accidentally pressed. You could also leave Zoom on if you want and use Option-Command-- to unzoom.

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