Chinese Character Kerning? Practice Grid Needs Adjustment

[pagelayoutt]

I am a newbie using Publisher to prepare practice grids for practicing Chinese characters, but I am having trouble aligning the characters within each box. Chinese character fonts are uniformly monospaced (no kerning option). Columns 1 and 2 are too far to the right, and column 3 is just right (3D needs a very slight nudge to the right). Columns 4 and 5 are also very slightly off (4D and 5C need to be slightly nudged to the left).

When designing the grid, I left a small horizontal space (1.2 mm) between boxes. I set my text size to 110 pts, which seems just right (at least for column 3). Anything above or below 110 pts causes more problems. I hope I can avoid making microadjustments to every single box. The character menu doesn't seem to have any useful options, and neither does the paragraph menu. "Spacing" seems like the obvious place for making adjustments, but that doesn't work either: leading doesn't work; left indent and right indent move everything over. Maybe I should just jam all the boxes together? Advice would be very much appreciated.

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by pagelayoutt
Duplicated graphics (I only need one copy at the top).

[Lee D]

Can you provide information on what is wrong with the above as you posted in the Feedback section and now it's moved to the Questions section. If this is something your've designed and are showing others you may want to post in the Share your work section in the future.

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, Lee D said:

Can you provide information on what is wrong with the above

Take a close look at the characters that are identical. 2B and 4A are exactly the same except for their horizontal alignment, likewise C1 and B3. There are others!