Can’t get back ‘online’ from ‘offline’ in my Outlook e mail account.

I recently set up a g mail account and clicked to have my live.com account hooked up to it.  When I no longer wanted to use the g mail account because all of my e mail was now being sent to this account, I deleted the g mail account.  Now my outlook live account is offline and I have not been able to fix it.  I have looked at all the help sites and none work.  When I originally set up mu e mail account I used the outlook connector.  Any help will be appreciated.  Thanks.