Why does my pencil shape change?

Good Afternoon:
I'm using Elements 8 to clean up scanned line drawings for service manuals and catalogs. While I was working on an image the pencil tool changed from a square shape to a rectangle. With the pencil size set to 1 point, the rectangle appears to be approximately a 2 x 2 square. I can't think of anything I did to cause the change and I can't seem to get the 1 pt pencil back, including rebooting. Has anyone run into this before or have a suggestion to solve the problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best Regards,
Art

If you are referring to the line tool (have never seen a pencil tool in PSEv.8), click on the little downward facing arrow, top left, in the tool's option bar.
Then, reset the tool. That may fix it.

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