Is there a way to import text into an inDesign layout randomly from multiple word docs?

i'd like to start out by thanking everyone for the help with the text box or stroke around text/paragraph, the advise has definitely helped.. What i'm wondering now is, is there a way to take multiple docs "wether it be a word doc or an indesign doc" and have them import or insert into our main layout in inDesign randomly or by taking one paragraph from each individual doc 1 after the other till each paragraph is inserted..
To give you an idea:
say i hav 4 text docs each doc is a category so to say, each with anywhere from 25 to 100 paragraphs.. each paragraph is it's own item or description.. each of these descriptions or items so to say needs to be in our layout each week, but randomly.. Currently we are using the cut and paste method to achieve the randomness in our layout.. I'm hoping theres an easier way..
-if this is something inDesign can't do, might there be an alternative.. say an external app. that might achieve this for us?

well.. we've come up with some sort of solution that seams to work well for what we want.. we combined each doc into an excel doc with each paragraph on it's own line.. then added extra columns in excel to input random numbers and letters -that can be changed weekly, so we can use the sort feature in excel to reorder all the paragraphs.. next we copy and paste from excel to inDesign, because importing an excel doc seams to be more agravation than it's worth..
-this seems like it will work well for what we need to do, though curiouse if anyone else might have an alternative solution?
as always thxs..

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