PPT 2016 in presentation mode connected to HDMI skips slides on MacBook Pro M2 (Sonoma)

So my MacBook Pro M2 chip running the latest version of Sonoma has always had problems when I run a power point presentation (I am running PPT 2016 for Mac) in presentation mode connected to a HDMI screen projection output. The problems appears to be that slides are skipped even when there is content on the next slide. A blank slide will appear instead.

Secondly, if there is animated content on the first slide, it will not play this, and rather skip forwards to a slide that looks blank. If I use the back button, the animated content will then project. It is very frustrating as this represent a glitch which I have not been able to solve.

All of these problems only occur when the lap top is connected to an external projection display. It does not happen when the presentation is being played on the MacBook Pro alone, only when it is connected to a projector/screen via the USB C or HDMI cable. Can someone please advise a possible solution?