Unable to Use Color Categories for Outlook 2013

Question

I've recently installed Office 2013 and found that the categories tag wasn't even on the ribbon (beside the tags where it should and used to be). and whenever i tried customizing the ribbon to add it, it was greyed out in the menu and didn't appear on
the ribbon. Whenever I clicked an appointment, the categories tab wasn't there either. Even the normal tags (Private, High Importance, Low Importance) don't work - they're clickable but they don't work. In the same way, whenever an appointment window opens,
yet again, the categories tab isn't there.   

Answer 1

The categories you assign won't sync to the server and be visible on other computers, but you can use either keyboard shortcuts to assign categories or a small macro to bring up the category dialog and assign them for messages on this computer.
This works on selected mail - add a button for it to the ribbon -
Public Sub CategorizeIMAP()
Dim objItem As Outlook.MailItem
Set objItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
objItem.ShowCategoriesDialog
Set objItem = Nothing
End Sub
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlook-categories-flags-and-imap-accounts/ has more information and a macro that works for open or selected items.
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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