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Illustrator won't select paths in symbolsCompound Shape I want to fill

I'm following a beginner's tutorial where I am supposed to colourcolor a skull that has different symbols on it. 

It was going all fine until I had to select the yellow bits to add different colourscolors to the skull, but Illustrator won't select it if I click on it, only the outline. 

I have to specifically go to the layers panel and meatball the path I want to colourcolor, which is really annoying and time consuming. What should I do to active the selection by a click?

the area selected and coloured is what I want to achieve just by clicking on it but it doesn't work, only from the layers panel

Illustrator won't select paths in symbols I want to fill

I'm following a beginner's tutorial where I am supposed to colour a skull that has different symbols on it. It was going all fine until I had to select the yellow bits to add different colours to the skull, but Illustrator won't select it if I click on it, only the outline. I have to specifically go to the layers panel and meatball the path I want to colour, which is really annoying and time consuming. What should I do to active the selection by a click?

the area selected and coloured is what I want to achieve just by clicking on it but it doesn't work, only from the layers panel

Illustrator won't select paths in Compound Shape I want to fill

I'm following a beginner's tutorial where I am supposed to color a skull that has different symbols on it. 

It was going all fine until I had to select the yellow bits to add different colors to the skull, but Illustrator won't select it if I click on it, only the outline. 

I have to specifically go to the layers panel and meatball the path I want to color, which is really annoying and time consuming. What should I do to active the selection by a click?

the area selected and coloured is what I want to achieve just by clicking on it but it doesn't work, only from the layers panel

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Illustrator won't select bits of compound paths in symbols I want to fill

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