Asked before, now again with more questions attached

[Jim Clark <jclark00 us ibm com>]

I wonder if there is some way to specify the place or item on which the alignment tool works. What I mean is this; I have a box where I want it, and I want to align another box with the first one. If I choose Center (my usual choice) it aligns them against some intermediate, self-determined meridian. I do not see where/how/if I can specify (and cannot really imagine how such thing would be specified) to say Align Item B with Item A.

If there's some other way to do this, I'd be happy to hear.

So, in a similar vein, is there a way to specify the distance when I do a spread out vertically? Is there a setting somewhere that tells it how far to space the boxes, or does it average the existing distances and make them that distance apart?

Thanks-

Jim Clark