How to make Adobe Illustrator remember past colors

Question

I use the live paint tool - but between each selection the color palette gets reset. How can I make it remember the last color I chose?

Answer 1

According to a post on the Adobe forums, this is not possible:

No way to make Illustrator remember the settings - they programmed it as bad as it is and I don't think there is a way at least using the UI.

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