(PS CS3) Selecting all text to change fill color?

I have a graphic with text - the text was not inserted by Photoshop, and it's not selectable as text; it's just part of the graphic. I'd like to change the color of the text.
I can select each letter and individual block of punctuation, etc. by using the Magic Wand and Shift+Click on each item. Is there a way, though, to simply select all of the text - or at least one complete line - with one or two moves or commands, vice the tediousness of clicking in each letter, comma, i dot, and so forth?
Ed

Given that the text is uniformly colored against a colorless background, a VERY easy shortcut can be to just use Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation, pick a color, then change the Hue slider.
Literally only a few seconds work...
-Noel

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grep {findWhat:"."} {gridAlignment: 1852796517} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
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After over 170 post still
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c. Inadequate and incomprehensible description
Perhaps one or more of the following are true
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