Keynote, hyperlink to hidden slide problem

I'm currently making a keynote that on one picture has a hyperlink to a slide. When the keynote is finished I don't want the presentation to show the slides that my hyperlinks are referring to. But if I try to hide the slide the hyperlink is linked to, the hyperlink is disabled. Suggestions?!
Oliver

Hi,
You could try putting a couple of blank slides or a 'the end' slide immediately after your presentation and stopping the slideshow manually.
Alastair.

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need to know if its possible to hide slides so they are not viewable unless accessed via a hyperlink on another slide.....
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PS i am a noob

Do you just need them to be hidden during the slideshow? If so there are two options.
First you could just make a separate slideshow with the hidden slides. Hyperlink the main slideshow to the hidden slideshow and the hidden slideshow back to the main slideshow. If you do this, you will want to make sure both slideshows are open before starting to have the most seamless transition.
The second option would be to have the hidden slides as the first slides in the slideshow. Say you have 5 you want hidden, they would be slides 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. You would start your slideshow on slide 6. Then you could either add hyperlinks to the first 5 slides, or use the slide chooser while presenting to move to them and back.

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I've never done it personally. Generally I just run all of my audio form Solo Performer Show Controller. But you very likely can accomplish what you want. Solo Performer Show Controller can send MIDI commands that most audio programs will respond to. You can send MIDI commands to the IAC bus. This is how you send MIDI to programs that are running on your computer; its an "internal" MIDI chain. You just set up the receiving program to watch for MIDI on the IAC bus.
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Hi there
It's unfortunate that you missed the links we tried to put where you would find them before you even posted. Because if you had read through them, it would have saved you from having to post your question as it is answered there.
Even though you missed the links, I'd heartily encourage you to read through them. Especially the Frequently Encountered Issues link, as it will also address some issues you will likely encounter with linking.
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