Place a milestone at 12/29/49 that says "And here a miracle occurs..." LOL
Sorry but there's really nothing you can do about it. That date is implicit
in the way Project tracks time internally as an integer count of 1/10 minute
ticks of a clock that began 1/1/84. 2049 is when the register fills up and
rolls over to 00000000..... If it's any consolation, human activities like
project work schedules are impossible to plan in any but the vaguest of
terms that far ahead of time anyway, so a final task with a note attached
indicating it's true planned finish is as accurate as anything else you
might do. I would be incredibly surprised if something planned today to
happen on some date in 2049 actually ends up happening on the planned date
plus or minus 5 years anyway. If you want the graphics of plans in those
time horizons, Visio 2003 will do Gantt charts with at least a 75 year time
horizon. I just tried an experiment, and it will create a Gantt chart and
Timeline with a date range starting today and ending in 2085 if you set the
major units to years and the minor units to months and that is certainly as
granular a time frame as your project plans can really be over that long a
time period. Since Project deals with detailed work schedules and specific
activities at a level of detail that simply couldn't be known for something
so far in the future, it seems pointless to use it today to try to schedule
a hydro-gravitonic technician to show up at 10am on July 18th, 2052 with the
tools required to install a river containment force field across Coyote
Creek. <grin> Use Visio for your overall big-picture plan and to document
the broad, long range, project phases and Project for detailed plans for the
immediate and near future time horizon. A single task bar in the Visio plan
might become hundreds of tasks in Project when it's moved over and you're
close enough to the events to schedule them in detail.
