SUMIF using OR in the conditional expression

I understand how to use the SUMIF function using checkboxes in one column for the conditional expression. I do not understand how to use it if I want to use an OR expression to OR various string values.
I want have a column called "Categories" which have a variety of string values in them like "Club" "Soccer" "School" "Church" "Home". I want to SUMIF the category is "School" or "Home". I wrote out my formula like this:
=SUMIF(Invitations::Category,OR("School","Home"), Invitations::Total in Party)
but it doesn't work. Suggestions? Thank!

Hello
The OR is the correct operator but, as far as I know, this kind of condition is not allowed.
Only a single one like "=Home" or like "=church" is allowed.
I don't know which are the other categories.
Assuming that they are "smaller than the string "church" you may use:
=SUMIF(Category,">=church",Total in Party)
If they are greater than "Home" you may use:
=SUMIF(Category,"<Home",Total in Party)
If you want to sum the values whose category matches one of three values, an alternate soluce may be to use an extraneus column (named Aux) whose formula would be
=OR(Category="church",Category="Home",Category="YK")
the final formula would be:
=SUMIF(Aux,TRUE,Total in Party)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 16 janvier 2008 14:08:41)

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