Wire Alignment tool?

Hello,
Is there any way to get the alignment functions to operate with selected wires? I would love to be able to select a bunch of, say, vertical running wires, and select Horizontal gap and make them all the same.......
I find I'm way too anal about getting the spacing to "look good".....
Also, any way to make a horizontal / vertical "gap +" and "gap -" command? ie take all selected objects and increase the gap between each by some fixed amount?
Thanks!

'Fraid not. Believe me, there have been many instances when this would have been handy. Don't know about 8.5 - don't have it. This has been suggested before, but it never hurts for it to be suggested again, as NI may decide to include in future versions.

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