How do I change the background color of text in Pages quickly?

I know that I can highight the words with my cursor, then press the little "a" in the toolbar, then select the color I want. However, I have to hihglight a ton of separate sentences in documents that have a few hundred pages.
Is there a shortcut for changing the background behind the words to a specific color? Or is there a way to do it with just one click? I don't want to have to carefully select the color I want each time. I just need one color, and I'd like to be able to set it easily.

Thanks, didn't even know about the styles drawer.
In summary for others...
Perform the background change on some text, and put the cursor on the text (click the text).
Command+Shift+T to bring up style drawer.
Click and hold the "+" button and click on "Add new Character Style" from selection.
Click on the arrow beside "Include these character attributes."
Deselect all of the attributes except for the "Fill."
Change the name to "Highlight Yellow" or whatever.
Then whenever you click on it in the styles drawer, it will apply the fill.

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