The following specifications are supported for Project, although actual limits and performance speed depend on your computer's configuration.
Note: Out-of-memory errors may occur before you reach the listed limits.
Attribute |
Maximum |
Resources per project |
700,000 |
Resource units per assignment |
60,000,000 units or 6,000,000,000% |
Resource availability dates |
100 |
Tasks per project |
400,000 |
Task dependencies per project |
No limit |
Predecessors per task |
50,000 |
Successors per task |
50,000 |
Outline levels per project |
65,535 |
Consolidated projects |
998 |
Open project files per consolidated project |
998 |
Sharer files connected to a single resource pool |
997 (That is, the maximum number of open project files, minus 1 for the resource pool itself.) |
Open windows |
50 |
Base calendars |
Tested to 30,000+ |
Calendar exceptions per calendar |
Testing was able to add more than 15,000 exceptions to a base calendar. |
Rate tables to support varying pay scales and rates |
5 per resource |
Variable rates per rate table to support rate increases and decreases |
25 |
Cost value in a currency field |
999,999,999,999.99 |
Work value |
1,666,666,666 hours |
Assignment work values for work assignments |
999,999,999 hours |
Assignment work values for variable material assignments |
999,999,999 units |
Assignment work values for fixed material assignments |
60,000,000 units |
Custom cell formats |
64,000 |
Print scaling adjustment range percentage |
10%-500% |
Page header text |
5 lines |
Page footer text |
3 lines |
Page legend text |
3 lines |
Page legend text box width |
5 inches (12.7 centimeters) |
Filter tests per filter |
40 |
Filter tests per AutoFilter |
2 per column |
Earliest date allowed for calculation |
January 1, 1984 |
Latest date allowed for calculation |
December 31, 2149 (In Project 2010, the last date allowed for calculation is December 31, 2049.) |
Discontinuous selections in a sheet view |
10 |
Baselines |
11 |
Characters in a text field |
255 |
Characters in an outline code field |
255 |
Values and characters in an Enterprise Resource Multi-Value (ERMV) field |
255 values, each of 255 characters |
Value in a number field |
9,999,999,999,999.99 |