Main screen window grew onto 2nd monitor

Help. I was working away and my main screen grew into 1/3 of my 2nd monitor. I've had my Imac for 2 years and never had a problem. Now I'm dead. I lowered the settings in Preferences. It made the window smaller, but the MAIN background is still larger than the screen size. Every time I open another program, it's onto the second monitor by 1/3. I've tried everything.
Lion 10.7.5
2011 Imac 24
This is SO frustrating. I've been trying to figure this out for over 10 hours now. There is nothing I can find out there.
Thanks for reading, maybe this has happened to you.
R

Opt>Command>8 fixed it.

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