Display doesn't fit screen

I just bought a new MacBook 13 and transferred everything from my MacBook Pro 15" using Migration Assistant.
So many things in the display don't fit the screen area. I've looked all over for a way to adjust this in "preferences" but see nothing. Even email is half hidden.

Are you sure that this isn't a one-off migration problem, with applications remembering their window size from your old, bigger, screen? You can test this by moving the window so you can see the bottom-right corner, then dragging this to resize the window so it fits the screen. If the application subsequently works OK then that's your answer.
I think that you can also test this theory by clicking the green + icon on the window (top left). If that 'corrects' the window then again I think it means that the window just has a remembered size that's bigger than your new screen.
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