Print Booklet in CS6

How can I print my 20 files as a single book. I read the Help's and they talk about Print Booklet under FILE. I find nothing about this in CS6.

Thank you,
I did exactly as you suggested (my files are PDF), in Browse, held Control key, did a multi select and saved as a single file.
Haven't tried to print yet but my files were originaly Scanned "as single PDF". Because I am new to CS6, when I tried to "clean the dirt" off each picture from the scan, I could find no way to save each picture back to a multi file.
So I saved them each as a single PDF and was going to print each one again, and then Scan each one again into a multi file. Then the dirt would have returned.
Thanks to you, now I can print a clean book.
Again, thank you.

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Wow, never would have thought you would have that option twice. That seemed to do the trick! Thank you so much. I owe you one!
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I got your file, and I have bad news and good news. We'll start with the bad news.
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Sorry for intermediate confusion.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann
Message was edited by: G.Hoffmann

For other readers:
InBooklet SE – an imposition module in InDesign CS2
Print Booklet – an imposition module in later versions, here CS6
IDImpose – an optional imposition module: http://idimposer.com/
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I've updated CS6 for the newest state, it's now ID 8.01.
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b) Some Encapsulated PostScript components are considered as buggy, though
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%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: makefont ]%%
Stack:
[448.0 0.0 0.0 -448.0 0.0 0.0]
-file-
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
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This program creates an imposed version of an InDesign file by generating one PDF
for each page. These pages should be uncompressed and not downsampled, which
is unnecessary for InBooklet SE, where we have only links to already existing
components. The new ID doc contains one PDF per page in the imposed page structure.
Therefore nothing is editable by InDesign. The following Export to PDF leads normally
to correct documents with working Links for URLs (garbled in just one case).
This is obviously not an optimal substitute for InBooklet SE.
Thanks for the discussion.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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