find loop---looking for a number. works fine with letters

Okay, should be a quick fix, but my bug eyes are tired of looking at this. I need to find a number I know is in column r:t. I have attached the first code that looks for something in column a:e and it works fine. I have tried for 4 days now to modify it to work with column r:t and looking for a number (a phone number) . Can't get it to work. Please help. What am I missing?

This one works:

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This one doesn't:

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the lcount variable is strictly me testing it.
Foundcell consistently finds "nothing"!?!?!?!?!?
Clearly I am missing something.

Thank you.

Nobody? Anybody? Pleeeeeaaaaase?! Can not figure this one out.

They look like rather different codes to me. There's a lot more changes than just changing cols a:e to r:t.
If you want to continue on the lines you're using, why not just change a:e to r:t in the first (working?) code, with only consequent other changes?

Thank you for the response Kalak. I did just that. The version above is just one of the many iterations I tried. I know it's an "integer" problem. I am looking up phone numbers in column r:t. I just can't figure out how to incorporate an integer into my code. "a" is essentially a phone number located in "ws1.range ("r2998"). the working code looks up string and works fine. Numbers are the issue. If i change something to "apple" in the non working code, it finds it.

OK. While running the following code:
Foundcell is "nothing".
"a" = exactly what I am looking for in column r:t.
Which leads me to believe that the error in finding the number is related to the range object of "foundcell"

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Finally figured it out. Only took me two weeks:
changed

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