Screen dimensions messed up after turned on

My computer was acting weird last night--with a jerky mouse-- so I shut it down. This morning I turned it on to find that my display wasn't taking up the entirety of the screen, my dock was bigger (which I fixed) and the documents on my display were larger too (fixed also). I don't know how to resize the background though and whenever I open an application, they won't fit correctly on the screen. I've had to make all my Safari screens very small as well as my dock.

Welcome to the forums!
Sounds like you have changed your display resolution.
Go to System Preferences/Displays to fix it.

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