No, just clicking the palette icon after selecting the range you want it to apply to is the way. However, you can define a shortcut for "Apply last palette element" in Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts, which makes it really easy to repeatedly apply the same element such as the ___/ line. I have this command mapped to "\" and use it often for this sort of thing.
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No, just clicking the palette icon after selecting the range you want it to apply to is the way. However, you can define a shortcut for "Apply last palette element" in Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts, which makes it really easy to repeatedly apply the same element such as the ___/ line. I have this command mapped to "\" and use it often for this sort of thing.