Question about Outlook Express

My outlook.com account won't let me add other email accounts. Says it needs to be verified although I keep going through the verification process. Other similar questioners have had their email account examined by microsoft. How do I get my accnt examined for problems? Why is this so difficult? It is easy on Googlemail which I prefer not to use.

This has happened on multiple machines with different versions of explorer.

For the last two days, I have not been receiving any emails (including ones I send myself or that senders confirm have been sent to me, on both my mobile phone and computer) but I am able to send emails and my contacts receive them. This just happened suddenly, I have never had any problems before.

I have tried to check my email settings as per instructions from other posts and everything seems to be fine, so why am I not receiving emails? Is there some way to check why they aren't getting through?

I have 3 Windows 8.1 systems and I would like to know how to set or tell which system will control the SkyDrive>sync settings>start screen when enabled.

Thanks!

When I reply to an email and I type a word that has an apostrophe (e.g. don't) when I get a reply to my email I can see that the "don't" that I originally typed appears as:  don't    So, what is going on and how can I fix this.

Thank you

I update 4 excel spreadsheets on a weekly basis and once updated, backup (just these 4 documents) onto Skydrive.  Whilst on the PC (Windows 8) everything is fine but when I try to access the files from another device - eg mobile, skydrive still holds the old versions rather than the updated ones.

Any advice gratefully received

Jakinthebox