Hi I am having terrible problems with outlook and coloured categories. I have been using outlook from the office mac 2011 home and business addition on my iMac and make extensive use of the colour categories for my work calendar.  I also access my calendar on my iPad and iPhone and this is where it just doesn't seem to be compatible.  initially the calendar kept getting corrupted and duplicated and after much web trawling I found help and have now urned off the apple i-cal syncing and do not use it at all.   

In trying to find a solution i have taken out a Microsoft exchange account with a new email and this works great on the iMac but on the iPhone and iPad i only get the light version when I log on regardless of which browser i Use.   I see all the emails and calendar entries but it's only a lite version and no access to categories etc. 

So I signed up for the Microsoft 360 home 30 day trial being told that the Outlook web app would solve the problem but i still don't get any coloured category information just lists of entries. all the entries are there but no colour coding. 

Also when i downloaded the 360 version of outlook all the categories changed colours! and still only show up on the iMac.  

No one wants to take responsibility or provide an answer. Apple care say that they cannot support Microsoft products such as outlook and tell me to ring Microsoft.

Microsoft tell me they cannot support apple or outlook or office 360 because I am using a Microsoft exchange account. 

My Microsoft exchange account provider 1 and 1 tell me it is a Microsoft/Apple issue!!!   My email, syncing etc all work fine its just the format it gets displayed in.

The only solution I can see is if I buy a macbook as then I will be able to install the full version of outlook. it seems a bit extreme and an expensive option.

Any help greatly appreciated.  Im losing the will to live.