Disable Zoom to Selection

[Mariano–]

How does one disable zoom to selection and make InDesign zoom to page/spread instead?
I find it very counter-intuitive that my page view changes every time I zoom when an object is selected.

Please read carefully and know your software before following up. If you are not fully certain you can provide a solution, or you are in love with this zoom to object feature, please refrain from posting a reply. Thank you.

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi @Mariano– 

which InDesign version do you use?

how do you zoom?

[Alt]+scroll       ?

[Dan Rodney]

I'm sorry, but there's no preference to disable it. You'd have to use something other than the zoom keystrokes, such as:

• holding Option/Alt and scrolling
• holding Cmd–Space (Mac) or Ctrl–Space (Windows) and clicking on where you want to zoom.

[pixxxelschubser]

Ok @Mariano– 

now I fully understand the last sentence in your first post:

"Please read carefully and know your software before following up. If you are not fully certain you can provide a solution, or you are in love with this zoom to object feature, please refrain from posting a reply. Thank you."

I found your thread from May 2019 with the same topic.

Disable Zoom to Selection 

Too bad that you did not mention the thread.

1. No, there is still no preference to disable that behaviour.
2. All you can do is try to use the other zoom options as described in this and your older thread.
3. You can search/vote or write a topic on indesign.uservoice.com Filter:zoom 

You currently have no other options.

[Mariano–]

Thank you both pixxxelschubser and Dan_Rodney for providing useful, thorough answers, instead of replying for the sake of earning points.
I'll submit a feature request, as suggested.

[pixxxelschubser]

@Mariano– wrote: "… I'll submit a feature request, as suggested."

At the moment this is the most sensible decision.

What else could you do? Copy the link from your feature request and post it here. Perhaps one or the other would also like to vote for it.

[Randy Hagan]

1. Click on absolutely nothing/away from any element on the InDesign page.
2. Zoom to the size you want to see the entire page/spread.

The absolutely foolproof way to disable Zoom to Selection is to have absolutely nothing selected. With nothing selected, InDesign defaults to the center of the page/spread view, just as you desire.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[Dan Rodney]

What @Randy Hagan said about making sure nothing is selected is what I do. To add to that, if it's not easy to click away to deselect (maybe you're zoomed in too far), you can hit Cmd–Shift–A (Mac) or Ctrl–Shift–A (Windows) to make sure nothing is selected. Then you can Zoom without nothing selected. 

I know it's not the same as disabling Zoom to Selection, but it's as close as you'll currently get.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

See the post below.

[Dan Rodney]

Oops, sorry I didn't see your response. Looks like you beat me to it.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

😉

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

ID would need know to know if you want to zoom into the page or spread so that would depend on the existing view. Just do a quick Ctrl-Shift-A [Cmd-Shift-A] to deselect anything before you zoom in. 

Added after post:

This, of course, will zoom into the center of the page or spread. 

As you know, the default behavior is with an object selected, it would logically center the object on screen. With text selected, it centers your type cursor.