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Subject says it all.

This is a frustrating gap with what can be done with macros/tools.

Figured I might be able to run a tool, put the output in a file and then insert file. And you can do that.

But you can't automate it. From what I can see its not possible to execute a tool as part of a macro. Would love to hear that I'm wrong.

You can of course cut and paste from the tool output window but there is no reason for the extra step.

There are a lot of potential uses for this and it would save time.

As a follow on, after doing some reading here, I see that there is a windows clip command. That gives you a way to execute a command and pipe its output to the clip utility that will put it in the windows clipboard and paste from there.

Wonderful.

Unfortunately you can't reduce this further because you can't seem to put the execution of a remote tool into a macro (in this case it would be simply something like Ctrl+1 Ctrl+V). The macro recorder won't record the Ctrl+1.

Have you tried binding a different key sequence to the tool?