graphical user interface 34 gui 34 e g control element which resides within a machine readable media to direct the operation of workstation 200 any suitable machine readable media may retain the gui such as ram 214 rom 216 a magnetic diskette magnetic tape or optical disk the last three being located in disk and tape drives 220 the user locates specific points within the list using the gui the gui directs cpu 210 to locate the specific points within the list to do this the gui generates an indexed vertical scroll bar however one skilled in the art will readily recognize that the gui could generate other types of viewers to implement the exemplary embodiment such as for example an indexed horizontal scroll bar referring to fig3 window 300 may display various numbers of object rows however for sake of illustration window 300 alphabetically displays three icon rows 340 342 and 344 window 300 also displays indexed scroll bar herein 34 scroll bar 34 350 scroll bar 350 includes up arrow 320 down arrow 330 internal region 351 and slider 310 the gui positions indexing characters e g 352 and 354 within the internal region of scroll bar 350 the user may position and click any suitable pointing.