How do I create a shortcut to fill cells with the same background colour

Question

I have recently starting using Numbers, being an Excel user for years.
I often fill cells with a yellow background to highlight them.
In Excel you can do this from a simple colour menu in the toolbar at the top.
I have found no quick and easy way to do this in Numbers.
Any advice would be appreciated.
thank you

Answer 1

As far as I can tell there's no direct equivalent of the little paintbucket button in Excel that remembers the last colour you filled with.
One quick and relatively easy way to achieve it would be with an AppleScript:
tell application "Numbers" to tell front document to tell active sheet
  try
  set active_table to (first table whose class of selection range is range)
  on error
  display alert "No selection" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
  return
  end try
  tell active_table
  set background color of selection range to {62466, 65535, 28003}
  end tell
end tell
This could be run from Numbers' script menu (screen grab below) or saved as an Automator Service and run from a popup or keyboard shortcut (eg ctrl-y).
Post back if you'd like to follow up either of those ideas.