Give your Microsoft Excel skills a boost with this $30 training bundle

Resume padding is as American as baseball and hot dogs. In fact, 4 out of 5 job applicants stretch, if not bend, sprain or outright fracture the truth about themselves on their resume. While some resume lies are truly epic, most fall into the little white lie variety, like claiming mastery of software with which you only hold a passing familiarity.

This brings us to a majority of business professionals who list a proficiency with Microsoft Excel among their job-worthy talents. Are you truly battle-tested in all the various features of the world's most popular spreadsheet and data analytics tool, or did you just update some cells on an Excel file once and calling it mastery?

Excel's power and reach is indisputable, so whether you're adept with its features or lying through your teeth, the training in The Complete 2020 Microsoft Excel Expert Bundle is a legitimate means of making that resume bullet a 100 percent true statement of your knowledge.

This package of four courses touting more than 20 hours of instruction isn't for the first time Excel user, but if you've got a few Excel hours under your belt and want to learn the tips and tricks employed by true experts, this collection can get you there.

The Microsoft Excel 2019: Advanced course goes deep into advanced charting and graphing, how to create visualizations using sparklines and data bars, formatting tricks as well as the ability to calculate interest or depreciation in a spreadsheet.

In Power Pivot, Power Query, and DAX in Excel, users explore some of Excel's most powerful tools, such as high-level sorting and other organizational tips in Power Query and review capabilities of a PivotTable, all made possible with knowledge of the DAX formula language.

Meanwhile, VBA is the programming language that facilitates all of Excel's abilities, as well as makes advanced automation possible. VBA for Beginners and VBA Intermediate explain how to use that language to help make virtually any Excel functions possible.

Usually priced at $275, shoppers can save almost 90 percent by getting the complete collection now for just $29.99.