In Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, when you click Categorize and then click Edit Categories, you receive the following error message:

You verify that Outlook is communicating successfully with the server. For example, you do this by sending and receiving email. However, you continue to receive this error.
Outlook can’t reach the server to get the categories.
Please check your network connection and try again.
Please check your network connection and try again.

You verify that Outlook is communicating successfully with the server. For example, you do this by sending and receiving email. However, you continue to receive this error.