When you are working with a model in different views, I would suggest to have the model selected, or have a vertex, polygon, edge, etc.. selected when switching views. If it seems far and you still have the object selected, press 'Z' to zoom in. When you said you had to use Zoom Extends All, I assume you are using the mouse to zoom in. Z is a shortcut
It also helps to work with a three button mouse, the middle being the scroll button. I don't think there's a setting that you can change to adjust the zoom level.