Creating two column article with only section title on one column

Question

I am trying to create a class file of my own for a personally formatted CV. I would like to know how to create two column cv with one column containing only the section title while the others containing the contents. Also how can i create a box filled with color along the side of each line in the content side column.

Answer 1

The multicol package (link) does exactly what you need, see the following example of its usage (you can replace \lipsum by any text material or whatever):

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{multicol}

\usepackage{lipsum} % for some dummy text

\begin{document}

\begin{multicols}{2}
  [\section{Section title that goes into both columns}]
\lipsum
\end{multicols}

\begin{multicols}{2}
  [\section{Section title that goes into both columns}]
\lipsum[11-20]
\end{multicols}

\end{document}

Edit: as egreg points out correctly, the section header should be put as an optional argument (as is now in the MWE), so that the first paragraph gets correctly un-indented.