Hi, Croptop,
I've had the same problem. I just eyeballed things. I figured if I couldn't see the spacing was off, no one else would.
I researched on line and found this:
https://support.office.com/en-us/art...b-570b170686f2
Does this help?
I know "distribute horizontally" and "distribute vertically" are options in PowerPoint, but I haven't seen them in Publisher.