Footing Host

Im quite irratated at the moment.  In my project, I have put in my foundation walls, my columns, my floor slabs and my wall foundations.  I am needing to add a "pier" to my column to get the spread footing to the right elevation.  Well, Revit, you are supposed to let me add the concrete column as a pier.  First off, I hate the way columns are put in at the moment.  Why can I not adjust the insertion elevations in the properties box when I put in a column.  The whole depth, height, level thing is TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE.  Well, after dealing with this issue and putting in the pier (Much more difficult than it should be)  Now I cant get the columns to attach together and the footing to automatically move to the bottom of the pier.  So I have to see what the slab elevation is and offset my footing from this elevation.  THIS IS AWFUL. This one's for you Autodesk.

 

Update:  Well, I don't really take any of it back, but you can use ALIGN to move the spread footings to the same elevations as the wall ftg which helps