how to inset round edges on ellipse

[inquestflash]

Hi community.

I have made a round ellipse shape and I have chosen its ends to be round, but the options of inner and outside alighn stroke are greyed out. 

[Doug A Roberts]

You can't use those options on an open path.

You can, however, use the width tool to set up a width profile that sits entirely on one side of a path and use that.