Hopefully there's an easy answer for this, I've gone through the User Reference files but can't find the solution I'm after. I essentially want to select a group of vertices and align them in a certain axis, here's some example ASCII art:
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There is an align tool that I've experimented with greatly, but it doesn't work how I expect. It takes all the vertices and adjusts them as a whole, as opposed to individually.
The only way I can do it at the moment is by selecting each individual vertex and manually entering in the same axis position for all of them (and obviously this would take a lot of time with many vertices). Even selecting all the vertices and entering in the position won't work, it merley adjusts them like the align tool.
Could someone please help me here? It's slowing me down greatly. Thanks.

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