Keyboard shortcuts on drop down save menus

i have a question about the little drop down menulet that appears when i try to quit a document i have been working on, either in Textedit or Pages and sometimes Preview. the 'Save' option is highlighted in blue and is thus the default, so pressing enter selects it. I remember reading somewhere that if you want to select one of the other options, ie 'Dont save', or 'Cancel', there is some kind of shortcut for that involving the first letter of the of the menu item; for example Command-C for 'Cancel'. At the moment i am just using the trackpad for this. thanks for your help!
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hi- thank you to both of you. the question is answered but i dont know what the etiquette of awarding the 'question solved' points is here. Because the question had two parts, Malcolm Rayfield answered both parts, but A.Carlo also kindly answered the second part, so i don't know how to give the points without excluding A.Carlo. but i guess if i can only give the points to one person, it should be Malcolm, since he answered both?
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