Use marquee zoom in PSE

From the Adobe Help site, Virtual Assistant feature - 
" . . . In Photoshop Elements, you can zoom into a specific area of your image by using the Zoom tool combined with a marquee rectangle selection, without relying on scrubby zoom. Follow these steps:

1. Select the Zoom tool from the toolbar.
2. In the Tool Options bar, ensure the Zoom In option is selected (not Scrubby Zoom).
3. Click and drag a rectangular marquee over the area of the image you want to zoom into. This will zoom the view to fit the selected area precisely. 
   This method allows precise zooming to a defined rectangular area without the scrubby zoom effect.
   

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This would be ideal, but does not happen on my installation !

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Zoom to a selection

Another way to change a view is to zoom to a target area in an image. Here’s how:

- Click the Zoom tool on the Tools panel (or press Z)-  Drag a box around the area you want to zoom.

Keep the mouse button pressed, and as you drag the mouse, a dashed rectangle marquee appears.
- Release the mouse button. The view zooms to fit the space defined by the marquee rectangle.
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In the Navigator panel you can press the Ctrl key and then drag a marquee around the area to zoom into, much like using the Zoom Tool without Scrubby Zoom enabled.

On the Mac side hold down the Cmd key and drag out the marquee.

As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be a keyboard shortcut in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to toggle Scrubby Zoom on/off.

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Directly in the workspace,click and hold the zoom tool on the point you want, continue holding  and Elements will zoom to that area of focus.