Packaging other linked indesign files within a document

Hi everyone
I've searched the forum already but can't really find anything which helps.
I've been working on a very large presentation for a client, which I need to send over to them as a packaged file. Throughout the presentation we've linked other indesign documents from working files, as its far easier and more precise than copying and pasting, but it won't let me package the file together because of the other indesign files. Is there a way of packaging the whole thing together as one? I'm using inDesign CS6 version 8.0, on OSX 10.8.3 if that helps.
Cheers!

Thanks for the reply Willi – I agree, no copying and pasting, its a nightmare. Yeah we're working with files off a server (we've also found that this is problematic for linked files as when our computers disconnect from the server the document 'loses' all the linked files and I have to go through re-linking them. The most annoying thing about this is that when you look at the file info it shows the path and it knows where it is, but it still can't find it, very upsetting but this is a different topic) – also the file has been edited remotely. If the linked files are on a server will this mean we can't package it? Surely there must be a way round this? (when there's no linked .indd files the packaging works just fine, its just the indd files its refusing to package up) The problem with exporting as pdf files and placing them in is that there's about 10 different working indd files we're linking from, all of which are constantly being changed and updated, so it would be a nightmare to have to pdf all of these up every time we go back for a review!

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