E-mail attachments appear as viewable page- want icon only

I send many e-mails a day with word and pdf attachments to them, to clients.  Two things I struggle with and hope to solve.
1- I use the Mac mail system.  When I attach a document, sometimes only the icon shows, and sometimes the whole page shows.  From reading other posts, it looks like if the attachment is only 1 page, the whole page shows on my screen.  I DO NOT want that.  I print my e-mails for my files and when the whole page shows, an e-mail that should be 1/2 a page turns into a 4-page e-mail.  A waste of paper and space in my files.  How do I make all the attachments appear as icons?  I have tried right click, "show as icon" and that makes only the icon show on the screen, but when I print the e-mail, the entire page of 1-page attachments print (although smaller), making the e-mail way too long.  HELP!
2- is there a way, when I attach files, for them to appear in a separate line at the top of the message, like for windows/outlook users?  I absolutely hate that whereever my cursor is at the time I do the attachment, that's where the attachment goes to.  I often compose e-mail and then go back to revise something, forget to move the cursor, attach, have to delete, and go back and reattach.
Also I get Windows users who get very confused by my e-mails and keep replying and saying there was no attachment.  I don't know where attachments show up on the other end but I'm getting issues with that, too.
Thank you to any one who can give me solutions!

This is easy enough to do on any individual message. I think the trick most people are looking for is how to make this a default on ALL messages.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130223000057486
From that link:
Turn off automatic attachment preview in Mail 
Mail, by default, provides a preview of attachments in can read, such as graphics and PDF files. However, you can run a command in Terminal to turn this off. Run the following:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
Quit Mail and relaunch it. When you view a message, all attachments will be shown as icons only.
To restore the original functionality, run this command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no
Found on StackExchange.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24569/turn-off-automatic-preview-in-app le-mail

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