Tools menu -> Options -> Pick cursor aparture

And after gaming with you for a while, they became even more careful? :)

You can include them with the code :BUTTON_NAME: and |BUTTON_NAME| (With and without text)

The list is here.

That large scale bar is actually correct, it's just that it is a bit larger than you want.

That particular scale bar is 50 map units large, so at scale 1, it will fill the entire map width. But you can use that knowledge to make it the size you want it. Because if it is 50 at scale one, well, then it will be 5 at scale 0.1.

I might not have been spesific enough when I said scale bars should always be placed at scale 1. What I really should have said is "don't apply metric conversion to the scale for scale bars.". Placing it at 0.3048 will never work. But sensible scaling based on 1 as the default value does, so using 0.1 as I described above, it will be one tenth of it's "intended" size, which should work fine for your map. Or maybe you want 0.2 (which then results in a 10m long scalebar)

Looks like you have just drawn outside the map border instead of properly enlarging the map. This can cause some issues with certain tools that tries to operate within bounds.

Fortunately, this is easy to fix. If you hide all layers but MAP BORDER, you should see a set of 4 lines forming a rectangle (usually bright green). This is the actual map border. Simply move these, or erase and redraw them where you need them to be. They are just basic lines, on the MAP BORDER layer and BACKGROUND sheet.

(Feel free to unhide more sheets and layers when moving them, I just told you to hide everything to easily see them. You'll probably want to have most stuff hidden though, to make them a bit easier to manipulate without accidentally moving other stuff. Note also that the MAP BORDER layer is usually frozen, if so, it needs to be thawed before you can manipulate the entities on it)

If the lines are already correctly placed, it can also indicate that you have rogue entities on the MAP BORDER layer, ONLY the four lines forming this outline should be there, other entities will confuse the tools

Also note that for the grid in particular, you can also click on Select point in the dialog to place the grid manually to control exactly where it ends up.