How to Align objects

Hello!
I have a set of 5 cfselect boxes, set up in two colums of two
cfselects each (Except the last one) I cannot get them to align by
the objets themselves, instead they align by text, which poses an
obvious aestetical issue. I have tried several style parameters but
no luck. what would you do to have them neatly aligned? I tried
going into design view, but for some reason it all looks like a
loong vertical line of objects on DreamWeaver. Help please? If you
need any further info, I'd be happy to provide it!

Ehm..I am working on another form, and I had been using
style="margin:" to align them, but on this one I have too many
fields to do it that way and they don't match since I have them in
rows of two and, by creating a cfformgroup for each pair I cannot
move them around individually (and I won't even get started on the
pains of trial and error moving a couple of pixels at a time). I'm
sure there is a better way, and if anyone would care to point me to
it I'd reaaally appreciate it!

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Hello Peter,
thank you for fast feedback. I appreciate it.
I don't want to use smartguides because when there are more objects around it will be confusing to guess if you have right center or not.
Changing preferences for locked objects will not help much I guess. I like the way the locked objects are unselctable now and of course, as you mentioned, it is time consuming way to go.
The case is, that I would like Adobe to add this issue to the wish list. If this "double click" way is good for Illustrator, why it is not implemented in Indesign, forcing users to use some magical, time consuming, workarounds.
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