Text document read into script

Hello,

I have a text document "mylist.odt" that contains one column of many words. The document is a word document. I would like to read it into my matlab script and ultimately have it as a string array. I have actually manged to read it in using fopen() and fscanf(). It reads it in as a 1x111022 char. I am having trouble converting it into a string array.

Any advice is greatly appeciated! Thanks in advance!