Unclear photos when using zoom

Hey guys. I have a Cannon powershot S400 and have just recently gotten interested in digital photograpy. I can shoot a macro shot pretty easily (who can't...) but when I try to zoom in on things, the object is blurry and looks terrible. Does anyone have ideas or suggestions? Thanks for the help.

- Riddler

when you do Macro you should bring your camera close to your suject with out using the zoom... See your manual it will tell you the proper distance....

Yep... and your going to want to make sure that when you are zooming that you still in the "Optical Zoom" stage and not the "Digital Zoom" stage, normally digital zoom makes images look fuzzy/distorted. And like Delisk said... look in your manual, even though its going to be a pain there is a lot of useful information in there. ;)