It's not ideal, but I'm going to try this.  So frustrating to continually have to use work-arounds to use QB daily without wanting to bang your head against the wall.

This workaround still doesn't solve the tiny and unexpandable boxes with Purchaser / Ship To, Terms, Customer Message, or Memo fields on the Estimates and similar fixed fields on other forms though.  Those continue to be a major frustration since I often have to copy paste info from some of those fields to other places where I need it.