Hyperlink to a specific sheet

Question

I would like to open a specific sheet of a Google Sheets from a hyperlink in another spreadsheet.

I have different links in my master spreadsheet and each should have a

Answer 1

The HYPERLINK function can link to another sheet in the same workbook; if you observe the URL of the spreadsheet, at the end of it there is #gid=x where x is unique for each sheet.

The problem is, it will open the sheet as a new instance of the spreadsheet in another tab, which is probably not desirable. The workaround would be to insert images or drawings as buttons, and assigning a script to them that will activate specific sheets.