u/edith_white

I woke up to the scent of fire this morning.

Thankfully, nothing immediately around me, but the smoke from fires miles away was strong enough to cover the town where I live.

Everywhere I see evidence of imminent crisis and yet, I look on Instagram or LinkedIn and everything’s AI, the latest “haul” from Temu. The news is all data centres and climate-change-denying Farage.

I feel like I’m watching a house fire and people are throwing petrol on it, not water.

I want to do something, but I’m stuck. Advice welcome.

Things I already do/ steps I’ve taken:
- vegan (for 10+ years)
- Childfree
- boycott Amazon, McDonalds, CocaCola etc
- donate to ecologi to plant trees and friends of the earth
- (tiny) investments in green funds
- use ecomobile and Octopus Energy
- no fast fashion or fast furniture (everything’s secondhand or British bought)
- recycle/ compost
- rare air travel (one overseas holiday per 2 years, absolute max, even then, last holiday was by train)

What am I missing/ what else can I do?

An update has happened at some point in the last month and since then the formatting has been messed up in Word. Annotated images attached, any ideas what's going on, or how I can fix it?

Issue:
In both tables and in paragraphs the text doesn't fill up the space to the right consistently

Extra info:
If I press "backspace" it'll bring the word into the space, but it won't stay there. Any changes to the document anywhere (bold, font size, etc) "resets" everything and the spaces at the end of lines appear again.

Whatever this issue is, it pushes text on to the next line, generally messing up the appearance of the document and making formatting inconsistent.

All text is "left aligned", 1.0 line spacing, 2cm margins.

On a PC. Using Word "offline". Microsoft subscriber.

It doesn't happen with all fonts (example: Ariel, size 10.5 on image), but it has something to do with "normal" formatting.

Temporary solution:
Using the paragraph markers (image 2) "solves" the formatting spacing issue BUT I cannot write with it 'on' because the visual noise makes writing significantly harder.

Things I've tried:
I have googled so many variations of "extra space at the end of a line in Microsoft Word" and tried all the various suggestions via "file- options- advanced-". Nothing's fixed it.

Open to any/ all suggestions! I have assignment deadlines coming up really soon and I can't keep writing like this.

Feeling bleak- what are some practical steps I can take right now? (UK)

Help: Word formatting issues I cannot solve- so frustrating!