InDesign equivalent to Freehands "expand stroke" tool?

Hi everyone, I'm busy with the painful uphill journey of converting from freehand to indesign for my page layouts. Does anyone know if indesign has an equivalent to the freehand "expand stroke" tool? Thank you in advance to anyone who replies.

You have to use Illustrator to do that (outline or expand).
You can copy paste the object between InDesign and Illustrator, getting
the obect back editable in InDesign, if it is not too complicated.
Regards Nina Storm

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Judy Arndt wrote:
> D. Plank wrote:
>
>
>>Expanding a stroke used to expand just the line. Now,
it expands the
>>line and makes an object with by closing the path.
How can I get the old
>>behavior back with FHMX?
>
>
> I can't remember FH's Expand Stroke Xtra ever producing
two open paths.
>
> Select the butt end cap in the Expand Stroke dialog.
Option-click the end
> paths to subselect and delete them.
>
> There is an intermittent bug in FHMX, though. Sometimes
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> the expanded object a fill the same color as the
previous stroke, it will
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you're asking about?
>
> Judy Arndt
>

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