Chat, tell windows and filtersFollow

I was on for the first time last night, only for a little while, and was immediately annoyed by the SPAM. I could not figure out how to set up filters and windows so that all that ooc and shout stuff would go to it's own little window, like I like it in EQ1.
Also, I found two of my good friends, and added them to my friends list, but could not figure out how to make "tell" windows, there is no option in the options as in EQ1 to "use tell windows" Unless I missed something.
Is this option availible?

I must have missed something. Will have to go back and look. Are there preset "channels"? I saw the place to create channels and join channels.

Also, don't be surprised if the settings of your new chat windows are not saved consistently when you log off and log back in. It's been happening to quite a few people, including me. So far, logging back to character select nor desktop seems to consistently save the settings.

Updated
There's a good chance you can disregard what I said above, due to the last patch (just read the notes).

If this: "Main UI: UI settings should now save more reliably" is what I'm hoping it is, then yeah, forget what I just said.

Edited, Wed Nov 17 14:21:29 2004 by ArcosKojin