Alignment of objects

Following situation: I got, like, 10 objects in vertical aligment, all have the same width. Now I want their center point to align on X = 7.5mm. So I select them all, use "Align on vertical axis" (or so, got german Indesign) and then set the top-middle reference point
and set X to 7.5mm with all 10 objects selected. After this, when selecting a single object, the X value is not 7.5, it is some higher or lower (like in the small image).
But for all objects, the average of the 10 X values will still be 7.5mm.
How to get rid of this? Do I have to select every single object and set X = 7.5mm manually?

Problem solved. Sorry for the confusion. I just used the wrong alignment tool, instead of , though it worked somehow, but not correctly.

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