With all the action in WoW, I found that I was missing a lot of “important” messages what with the default setup of the General and Combat windows. One of the first new windows I made was one specifically for the Guild…

1. Hover on the chat window and you’ll see it has a tab (or multiple tabs if you’ve never changed them). Right-click on a tab and select Create New Window.
2. You will be prompted to enter the name of the window. I chose Hellfire Club, but you could pick anything you want, like Noisy Guildies…
3. Your new window will appear as a new tab on the General pane. You could leave it there, but you would need to remember to click on the tab in order to see Guild conversations. Instead, as in my example, I tore the tab free (left-click & drag) and set it above the default windows.
4. Lastly, you need to filter messages: Right-click the guild window’s tab, and below the aptly named Filters heading are a series of message categories. In all these categories, make sure only Guild is checked. Then, in the General tab, uncheck Guild.

As an option, you can change what color the Guild messages show up as, what color the window’s background is, and how transparent it is. If you drag the window to the other side of the screen, the scroll-up, -down, and -bottom buttons will flip to the right side of the window.

That’s it! You’re done… unless you get carried away like me. I have Combat torn off and stacked above the Guild window, and I have a second tab on General for S P A M, containing the trade channels, people making bandages, Barren’s chat, LFG, and some other stuff that bored me to tears, leaving only whispers, quest/xp/rep, looting, and a couple other things in my General pane. =]