Three ways to do that: 1) select the table by hovering just outside the top-left corner of the table (a 45 degree arrow will appear) and click, then inside the table click and drag to a new location. Unfortunately this leaves an empty table in the original location that must be deleted. I don’t know why we can’t just select and press Delete to do this. 2) starting from end of last paragraph before the table, click-drag through the table to select and then move it as in (1). 3) copy the table by using method (1) or (2) but hold the ctrl key down while you click-drag the table after selection to the new location.

Re copy tables from spreadsheets - forget “how Word does it” - what is wrong with how OOo does it? Select and copy in Calc then paste into Writer. You get an embedded Calc table with whatever formatting is in the original, or other formats if you use “Paste Special”. And back again works fine too.