Everything displays in Negative

I just had a PowerPoint presentation crash my computer and, in trying to get out of it, I held down a few keys and hit a few keys at the same time (trying to emulate ctlaltdel - yes, I'm a new mac owner used to pc methods). Now everything is displayed in negative - even my desktop wallpaper and screensaver are in negative. I tried to undo this by going bananas on my keyboard again but don't know what I did in the first place. I've looked in System Preferences but find nothing.
Does anyone know how to get my screen to display correctly again? I'm also going to have to post a thread as to why PowerPoint keeps crashing me.
Thanks!
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) Office 2004 for Mac

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