Help and Utilities ⇒ Wordpad suddenly changed page size.

[Gen Stranger]

in windows 7 I was spending a few hours to find out why my wordpad changed sixe to about a 3 inch ruler
I searched the internet trying to find a solution to my 3 in ruler in wordpad and followed all that was posted on how
to reset wordpad to the default using regedit - all failed. my screen still compressed the print to a 3 inch width unable to work with any document.
I then remembered that I changed paper size in my printer to print a few pictures
I went to my printer properties and changed that back to 8x11 paper size.
I then opened wordpad to find my ruler size when back to normal.
I do not know why the printer properties would affect wordpad but I posted this in case it helps someone else.