Publisher feature request - Gutters vertical & horizontal

[GeoffM33]

I've been trying to set up  a data merge sheet for a typical Avery label template which only has vertical gutters but no horizontal gutters. I've got a work-around suggested by forum members, but it would be nice to be able to specify horizontal and vertical gutters separately. Indeed, it would be great to be able to do this on ordinary page layouts too.

See attached for an example label template from Avery.

GM33

Avery_L7160_WordTemplate.pdf

[h_d]

+1 for column guides 

It would be fab if vertical and horizontal gutters could be set independently: the current arrangement is quite limiting.

As an example, I want columns with 6mm vertical gutters, and rows with 2mm horizontal gutters. If I set the gutters in the Guides Manager to 6mm and specify a number of rows greater than 1, the horizontal gutters are too deep:

The only solution that I can see is manually, and laboriously, to add pairs of horizontal guides:

And if I later decide to change the depth of my rows, I need to recalculate and re-input all the vertical spacings.