If you want to get up close and personal. click on the walk option in the lower right hand corner of your screen (little man walking icon)...click walk (as opposed to "run", used for escaping lethal battles) and you'll see a "Walk Pending" window. When you activate that round of combat, you'll have a certain amount of steps to reach your potential target when it is your turn to move (or not...some enemies will come to you first).
Just remember that you are going to lose turns as you walk so it might be best to use half the steps to approach and the other half to keep strikng at your opponents long range (if they have a chance to kill you, you know

) until you can get close enough to use your hand-held weapons.
All skills, as they are used, advance without having to dump bonus points into them unless you need to.