Importing Text and Animating

Hi,
I've got an excel file with a list of 200 names. I need to end up with these 200 names randomly fading in and out (over the course of 1-2 minutes) and possibly with some type of random animation or behavior to make the whole effect appear interesting.
Please share any ideas about how to achieve this, other than dealing with each name individually. I don't understand Motion enough to know if there is some way to import the list and have this all happen automatically.
Do I really need to deal with each name separately?
Thanks for any help?
Matt

If you arranged it to have one name per frame, you could do a clone layer of that, then use a replicator on the clone layer with a random fill and use the Sequence behavior to fade the names in and out...
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