Outlook Calendar color coding not syncing to iphone

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Outlook Calendar color coding not syncing to iphone

I'm using Microsoft XP and I have the original iPhone. I had two calendars on my outlook and phone (Calendar and Home). I synced my phone with my outlook calendar a while back and the color coding did seem to work. But I just recently deleted the "Home" calendar and re-synced and now the color coding does not show. All my calendar appointments show up as RED on my phone. Not sure if me deleting the "Home" calendar had anything to do with it. Any help?

Windows XP, Original iPhone

Posted on Jan 29, 2009 12:30 PM

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Mar 13, 2009 3:17 PM in response to Jennafermac

Yeah I am having the same issue with my Outlook as well, but all mine are in blue. I have a lot of catagories assigned with different colors but none of them seem to transfer over to the iPhone at all. I have searched and searched and found no work around at this time. I am curious as to what the answer is to this!

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Ranji

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May 6, 2009 12:13 PM in response to bguyatt79

I've been having issues with this as well. I color code the events on my Outlook Calendar based on event category. It seems that this information doesn't sync on the iPhone, however, my friends with iCal can do this just fine. 😟

Please give us more Outlook support for iPhone!!!!

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May 6, 2009 12:23 PM in response to Ranji

'Categories' and 'Labels' from Outlook do not transfer - you have all of your color-coded events in one calendar, which is what matters to the iPhone. You'd need to create multiple calendars in Outlook. Your friends with iCal have multiple calendars, that's the source of the colors.

Actually picking colors is a separate issue - only with the most recent iTunes version do iCal colors sync properly (although they did so using MobileMe before that). I have no idea how you'd select colors for Outlook calendars, though - they may just be assigned in order, as they were for iCal before the last iTunes update.

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