How to resize objects to percent of artboard?

[petrk27901450]

I would like to make an object 95% of the width and height of the artboard, but if I type 95% into the width/height of the transform window I am getting the width shrinking by 5% each time, or in other words instead of being 95% of the artboard it is 95% of the object each time.

Is there a way to change this to work similar to Photoshop where percentages resize objects to percentages of the canvas?

[Larry G. Schneider · Accepted solution]

Include an object the size of the artboard when selecting and scale it with the rest of the objects.

[petrk27901450]

Is this really the only way? Seems very counter intuitive, especially if working on web based work where it is common to work with percentages in CSS. There isn't a preference setting to change this behaviour by any chance?

[Monika Gause]

The canvas in Illustrator is 6x6 meters. In every file.