Keyboard shortcut to Don's Save or Cancel

[mk313]

2 questions for those more advanced that I.

Whenever I try to close Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc, I am presented with a popup that asks me if I want to Save/ Cancel/ Don't Save.

1. Save is defaulted to & if I hit the enter key, it saves the document, but I can't figure out a way to use keyboard shortcuts to select either Don't save or Cancel

2. Save is actually Written as Save... meaning that it looks like there is more to it than just Saving (Possibly Save as or some other option) but I can't figure out how to access those options. I can only seem to click save.

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks. I tried googling Mac Office shortcuts but I don't see anything that talks about Save as or Cancel. Thanks in advance.

 

[CreatorCode]

Cancel is traditionally ⌘. (It's easiest to remember that as the British would say it: command-fullstop.)

Don't Save is, depending on the application, either ⌘D (for Don't Save) or ⌘Delete. (In applications that support autosaving, it's always ⌘Delete, and the button is labelled Delete.)

The ellipsis (…) in a menu or button name means that the action will trigger another dialog when chosen. In the case of the Save… button, it will present a Save As dialog for you to name and place the file.

 

[jackerin]

You can change a setting in the keyboard preferences (in the System settings) so you can tab between dialog options. At least in the version of Word I have it remembers the last highlighted option, so I have "Don't save" highlighted and I can hit space to choose that, or hit enter to save.

 

[mk313]

Many thanks to you both! Those tips worked.

And once I was able to tab between different options, it now defaults to the same one that was last used.