Hyperlinking between two keynote presentations

Im a professional presenter who's always used microsoft powerpoint (been using powerpoint on a macbook pro). In Powerpoint, you can create a presentation, and then insert hyperlinks to navigate to any number of other powerpoint presentations.  During a presentation (obvisouly in presenter view) when you click on hyperlink in (say) your 'master' presentation (I'll call it 'master'), then you go to slide 1 in the hyperlinked presentation (lets call this presentation 'hyper 1'). At the end of the 'hyper 1' presentation, when you click through past the last slide, you then end up back on the same slide that you were on in the 'master' presentation (the slide that had the hyperlink on it to start with)... still in presenter view. Most of the audience has no idea that this even happened - its seamless. And you can do this any number of times over during the same slide show, to get to other presentations and back again to your 'master' presentation. Apple's Keynote seems to not allow this. If I do the above in Keynote, then at the end of the 'hyper' presentation the slide show escapes out of presentation mode. I found suggestions in help forums to use cmd+tab or cmd+shift+tab but this doesnt work. And even if it did it would not be ideal... because if you accidentally hit advance on the last slide of a hyperlinked presentation it will then escapse presenter mode - pklus you will need to know that it's the last slide. Also, you then have to step up to your computer, and I need a mouse controlled solution (on that note, I use a remote mouse when presenting, which allows me to move the cursor). As a work-around, I tried inserting another hyperlink on the last slide of the (say) 'hyper 1' presentation... but you guessed it already... it then takes you to slide 1 in your 'home' presentation, and not back to where you were (and you cant instruct it to go to a specific slide). By the way, the reason I do this is to allow me the freedom to navigate as I please in presentations, as oposed to being trapped with just the sequence of the slides in one presentation. HELP!

I found a solution to this by accident when doing a presentation a few days ago in a classroom, just because I do a lot of copying and pasting of old stuff into new presentations.
Take the last slide of 'Hyper 1' and copy it over into the 'master'
Inside master, create a hyperlink in the copied slide to the slide you want to return to.
Then recopy the copied slide (with the new hyperlink) back into 'Hyper 1' .  If the accident I saw occur in my own presentation is on track, when you click the hyperlink in the slide now, it should take you to the slide you had created the hyperlink for when the copied slide was being edited in 'master'.
Does that make sense?
Both presentations have to have been already saved somewhere for this to work.
You can do this with individual shapes/images I think as well.

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