Indesign packaging

[M.E.310814321c2q]

Does one need to package a book first before it may be exported for print?
Don't remember what I did but I was able to export one time and with file open, Export available. 

Next time, "Export" was greyed out and not availble. 

Second time I think I right clicked (don't remember) on the three dots at the top right of the Book Panel and the drop down said package for print, so I did. Both worked out but the second one did not produce a window whereby I could check all that I wanted, such as bleed, margins, make sure RGB changed to CMYK,, use document settings and so on. 

Is it possible (I'm guessing it is), there is more than one way to go about this. Trying to remember just one seems to be slippery for me.

Thanks ahead of time.

[Willi Adelberger]

When all links and files from a book are available, you can export the book. If you want to store the book somewhere, I recommend to package for print. 

[Manan Joshi]

I suppose you need to select all the book in the book panel, then go into the menu by clicking on the top right of the panel. There you would now see the "Package for Print" option, use that and you shall see the dialog to check for all things like fonts, links etc.

-Manan

[Eugene Tyson]

Indeed @Manan Joshi - either select them all or select none by ctrl/cmd click on the document to unhighlight them. 

[Manan Joshi]

Thanks @Eugene Tyson for the ctrl/cmd click trick. I did not know that. I had to figure this selecting documents part by playing around a bit.

-Manan

[Eugene Tyson]

Yeh the day I realised I could unselect the files and run the command was a really interesting one for me. I had a lot of documents in the book panel and selecting them all was not a lot of work, but added a layer that wasn't necessary in the end. It's a real odd feature - I'm not sure why the document has to be selected/unselected to get to work - weird there isn't just a Package All Documents. 

Or something like that.