Any way to invoke this "color eyedropper" tool via vba?

Here's what I'd like to be able to do.

You have a rectangle with no fill but inside this rectangle you have two others. The key is that the outer rectangle is in front of all others. If you grab the regular eyedropper tool that's on the main toolbar you can "pluck" the color from any shape but you cannot fill any shape that's within the outer "front" rectangle. Would be nice if I could grab the one I want to change and either have an option to "fill from other shape" whereby invoking the arrow to let me choose the other shape OR hit a macro shortcut to invoke the other eyedropper tool in the image above.

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  • select object you want fill then  CTRL+SHIFT+E and select color

    That's a good one. Hywel shared that in the thread that I linked to earlier.

    That Command is called "Sample mesh fill color" in the workspace Customization. In the default workspace, they have Ctrl+Shift+E assigned as the keyboard shortcut, but the Command is not present on any CommandBars or menus.

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