moving multiple objects

Just wondering what I’m missing here. I have multiple objects selected. These objects are in a row and I now want to move them a specific increment. Any time I type in the increment in the text box only one of the objects move. If I simply drag then they all move. I know you can drag and watch the counter in the bottom left corner, but it would be much easier to type it in and they all move.

Riptyde.

Parent them all to an empty and then move the empty with numerical input.

When all objects are selected, press G to move, and while still in grab mode, type in the numbers. Press Tab to toggle through x,y & z. What you type can be seen in the bottom left corner.

Or what you could do is drag and place the objects anywhere, and press F6 to tweak the last step by changing the numbers