SUMIF contains one of elements in array (OR)

Question

I have a list of payments where I would like to sum up the costs which description equals to one of the elements in my array.

EMTE     € 120,00 
Bread    € 35,24 
Lidl     € 0,89 
Plus     € 5,19 
Aldi     € 2,29 
Jumbo    € 4,70 

So with an array of {"Lidl", "Aldi"}, It would give me the total of (2,29+0,89) 3,18.

I tried Sum.If, but I don't seem how to use the or statement in it properly and combine it with an array kind of input.

Answer 1

Wrap the SUMIF / SUMIFS function in a SUMPRODUCT function to provide an extra level of cyclic calculation.

=SUMPRODUCT(SUMIFS(B:B, A:A, {"Lidl","Aldi"}))

        

Answer 2

You could use a pivot table to get the result. The advantage of this solution is that it does not require complex formulas and is easy to change. To create the pivot table:

• Select your data and use Insert > PivotTable
• Drag your first column to ROW, your second column to VALUES
• Make sure the VALUES are aggregated using a SUM
• In the top row of your PivotTable you see a DropDown that allows you to select the values that should be included in your report
• Make sure a grand total is displayed for all rows