How to convert cell of cell to array of string ?

The textscan function has returned me something atrocious and I need to split the data accordingly. How do I convert a 1 x 1000 cell where each cell contains a cell where each cell is a string to an array of 1 x 1000 string. this has got to be the worst data structure ever implemented by mankind

I text scanned a text file where each line consists of numbers and strings and now I get a data structure of cells of cells of cells