Using OR in SUMIF Excel

Question

I have a curious question about using the "OR" in an excel SUMIF.

Basically, in a

SUMIF(A:A,"Cat" OR "Dog", C1:C10)

How can I use the OR function in an excel SUMIF function?

Answer 1

You need to wrap the different OR parameters into curly brackets and enclose the whole Sumif in a SUM function, because Sumif will return an array of values that need to be summed up.

Also, the two ranges need to be the same size.

=SUM(SUMIF(A1:A10,{"cat","dog"}, C1:C10))