and i was about to write my first plugin to do this:)... well I guess I will just have to do a LAYOUT equivalent... this NUDGE capability has been a standard CORELDRAW interface capability for many years and is really handy ... should be built into the SU/LO interface as standard.. thanks for this plugin

I just did a quick check then with Excel and Layout

not sure if this is a capability new to Layout 2015 but

Copy and paste from excel to LO worked fine - editable table in a text box

Also trying a way I always use via powerpoint to keep the formatting and colours of Excel

1] select range in excel
2] paste as image in powerpoint
3] copy that image from powerpoint
4] pasting into layout - quick and pretty spreadsheet

hope that helps