Open-Lab CDS report. Column width and calibration curve label issues

I've had issues before with things not staying where I put them while building a template; or resetting the minute I would add or edit something - drove me nearly insane.  Eventually what I ended up doing was after having everything sort of set up the way I wanted, I opened the .rdl template file in notepad++ and manually edited values for widths, heights, vertical and horizontal alignments.  Not all that great a solution and hopefully someone has something better but it worked.  I had tried several options including not aligning to the grid or changing its resolution but had no luck with those, at least not in CDS C.01.07.

I've had issues before with things not staying where I put them while building a template; or resetting the minute I would add or edit something - drove me nearly insane.  Eventually what I ended up doing was after having everything sort of set up the way I wanted, I opened the .rdl template file in notepad++ and manually edited values for widths, heights, vertical and horizontal alignments.  Not all that great a solution and hopefully someone has something better but it worked.  I had tried several options including not aligning to the grid or changing its resolution but had no luck with those, at least not in CDS C.01.07.