Sharing files between Accounts?

Hi,
Just bought a MBP and setting it up. Myself and my partner will be using it, so i've set up accounts for the both of us (both as administrators). So i copied my itunes tracks over and loaded office for mac - all good so far. But when i go into my partners account - nothing is there. No itunes tracks and no office? Do i need to load each account with the source data or files? Is there no way of sharing between the two from the harddrive itself?
Cheers!

Congratulations on your purchase!
Let's tackle the easier of the two: Office. There's two places where you can put applications and I believe you placed Office in your User's Applications folder (hard drive>users>username>applications). In order for the program to be accessed by everyone, it needs to be placed: hard drive>applications.
For iTunes music, it has to be also placed in a neutral territory. My suggestion is to place here: hard drive>users>shared. Now you have to go to the iTunes preference panel and redirect where your music library is. When you open up the preference panel, click on Advanced and change the iTunes Music folder location. Both of you will have access to the files but your playlists will be different based on what you choose. Some files may appear to be missing but again that's because of your individual playlists, etc.
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