Color Categories in Outlook calendar

I see that this question has been asked before, but it doesn't appear to have been asked recently, and I'm hoping things have changed.
Is there a way to make the color categories from the Outlook calendar show up on my ipad calendar? I have all my events color coded in Outlook, and the events sync without difficulty, but the category colors do not appear on the ipad. Thanks in advance.

The iPad seems to assign colors not randomly, but in a way different than iCal. There appears to be no direct way of choosing colors for various calendars. To get the colors to match those on iCal on my iMac, I had to "trick" the iPad. For example, I my iCal events in blue, holidays in red, and week numbers in black. The iPad had week numbers in black, but events in purple and holidays in orange. What I did was disconnect my Exchange account (thereby deleting all events), and then removed and reinstalled the holidays. The new holiday installation came up red -- perfect. Next I turned on my Exchange and synced my calendar events, and they came up blue.
Seems like the iPad assigns color in a certain order based on what's in the caledar already. Turning on certain events in some order seems to be the only way to choose colors, and even then I don't know exactly what the order will be. I think I got lucky.

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Hey mate i had the same issue and was dumb founded till i came up with a solution that worked for me, and possibly someone out there looking for the same solution. Half the info i looked up was all bullshit and took me months to come up with a fix as
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