PRJ: Gantt Bar Names Truncated to First 51 Characters

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project, when you edit Gantt bar styles, although you can enter more than 51 characters for bar names, only the first 51 characters entered are actually retained.

Note that a similar 51-character limit exists for the text in the Show For...Tasks column. Note also that if the last entry in the Show For...Tasks column after truncating the list to 51 characters is still valid, Microsoft Project will retain that entry. For example, if you enter a list of conditions such that the "0" in Flag10 is the fifty-second character, the result will be a list ending with Flag1.