Simple ways of sharing folders across users?

Hi
I realise this has been done to death, but after many attempts I am wondering if I am missing something. I am using the top level public folder and system preferences route to drop in a folder that contains several sub folders and then multiple documents in each folder. So far it looks like I need to set access rights for each user at a main folder and sub folder (which is painful, but OK), but then also for every document which is contained in them.
Am I missing something - I am trying to quickly allow access to an existing file structure so we can both work on it retaining only one copy, and I don't want to start from fresh, or have duplicates.
Any thoughts?

Hi MartinR
Yep tried this one and even sorting our the file preferences at an individual file level to ensure they were read & write by user does not seem to work. You can open the file, but you can't alter it unless, of course, you originated it - not unless I am missing something again.
Ta

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