Microsoft Office 2013 - Fix for Outlook's color categories??

I am an Administrative Assistant and handle several people's calendars in my office. Not everyone uses the same colors for their categories.
Since installing Office 2013, I can no longer:
1. Change a color category without completely opening an invite. I can now only do this on
MY calendar from the calendar screen, without opening an invite. I used to be able to left click a meeting from the calendar screens select category and change just one occurrence. Now I get this error message:
"The operation failed. The messaging interfaces have returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook"
2. Change a color category for a single invite that is part of a series invite. In other words, It's all or nothing. For instance, yellow is our code for a conference call, so if a meeting series is usually a face-to-face meeting, but one day (bad weather,
etc...), we need to make it a dial-in only, I cannot change the color of that one day only.
Any known solution to these issues?

Hi,
Have you tried recreating the mail profile? Some users have a similar issue were able to fix it by recreating a new Outlook mail profile in Control Panel. To create a new mail profile, go to Control Panel > Mail > Show Profiles and then click Add button
to create a new profile. For detailed information, please refer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918
Please let me know the result.
Regards,
Steve Fan
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