Thank you all so much for your quick and highly informative responses! :D There's no single click operation to do that expand function in inkscape. I'd duplicate the object, kill the stroke on the top object, then send it to the back. Then, I'd path to stroke the top object and be done. It wouldn't ...

So I am coming from Illustrator trying to learn how to use inkscape as an alternative, and everything was going fine until I went to "expand" (I guess this is an Illustrator term) my object. I quickly found the "object to path" function and used it, but it did not expand my strok...