Data Merge - left aligning images

I hope there is someone who can help as this is driving me nuts.

I am creating braiile signs that uses data merge to import text and images.  Importing etc is all OK.

My issue is that i cant get the images to left align.  They only want to centre align.  I ahvbe tried creating. a text box and embedding the imnage in that and then align paragraph but the symbols sill centre align within the image boundaries.  The only one tht works correctly is whennI have 4 symbols and i suspect that it is conicindence and still centre justfied.