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Double-click the Artboard's icon in the Layers panel.

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17 minutes ago, ralphonz said:

Is there a way to make this so it only zooms to the width of the artboard?  For designing responsive websites, I don't want it to fit the height, only the width!

No, as far as I know.

But how is the zooming that Designer does while you're using it related to designing responsive websites?

Designer's zoom does not affect how anything you export from Designer will work on whatever website you plug it into. Just adjust the zoom to whatever you need.

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8 hours ago, ralphonz said:

For designing responsive websites, I don't want it to fit the height, only the width!

As @walt.farrell said, the AD zoom level has no effect on what a web page would display in an exported version.

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On 1/18/2020 at 4:45 PM, walt.farrell said:

No, as far as I know.

But how is the zooming that Designer does while you're using it related to designing responsive websites?

Designer's zoom does not affect how anything you export from Designer will work on whatever website you plug it into. Just adjust the zoom to whatever you need.

It's about workflow: being able to fit it to the width gives you a better idea of what it would look like when constrained to a screen.   as the user of a website never see the entire page on a screen - they have to scroll (usually) - it's not very helpful to see the whole height.  constantly adjusting the zoom is a pain, would be good if there was a quick way to do it.

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Two possibilities here;
Option1:
Go to View > New View
This will open a new tab showing your document. Set this View to your desired area and zoom level. In the other tab, or tabs if you make more New Views, you can can move around and zoom as much as you want and always have the your “Overview” tab to go back to.
The downside to this method is remembering which “tab” you are in and acidently altering your Overview!

Option 2: (my preferred)
Go to View > Studio and activate the Navigator Panel.
Next click the small menu icon top right and select ‘Advanced’.
(An empty View Point field will now be visible with an options gearwheel next to it at the bottom of the Navigator panel).
Position and zoom your canvas to taste.
Finally click the Navigators menu icon again or the “Gear” icon and choose Add.
View Points can also be renamed for added clarity when using them.
Double clicking a View Point will return it to it’s original position & zoom.
Like New Views above you can have as many View Points as you wish.

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Another zooming method that may work for you: With the Zoom tool active, you can hold the Alt modifier key (on Windows;not sure about Mac) and draw a marquee around the area you want to zoom to. So, if you wanted the width of an artboard (or an object) but not the height, draw a marquee with the Zoom Tool that covers the full width but only part of the height.

Possibly that would work on its own, or you could use that technique in combination with @markw's suggestions about using views or viewpoints.

 

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