Is there a way to latch a drawing tool, so you can draw, say, several rectangles without selecting "rectangle" each time?

I guess I put the whole question in the title...  Seems a simple question, but the search results showed hundreds of irrelevant items, and every new way I tried to ask found the same irrelevant results. Plus always popped up a window of unrelated and unanswered questions...  There must be some trick, like with the "Format Painter" in Microsoft Office, where you double-click it to latch it for use with the current format, until you double-click it again to unlatch it.