Have you tried this? http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15192-officedoc-read-write-format-ms-office-docs--xls-doc-ppt-

fscanf and textscan will work

Dear Amina

Hi

You can use the "OfficeDoc utility" on the Matlab File Exchange to read/write/format Word documents (plus Excel & PowerPoint docs) within Matlab. download link is :

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15192-officedoc-read-write-format-ms-office-docs--xls-doc-ppt-

I hope to be useful

Regards

Please go through the link given below. It may help.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15192-officedoc-read-write-format-ms-office-docs--xls-doc-ppt-/content/officedoc.m

this can be useful and compact 

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/matlab/import_export/import-data-interactively.html

please, see "Supported File Formats for Import and Export" in this website:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/supported-file-formats.html

it might help you!!!

Dear Amina Dilawar,

There is better provisions in MATLAB research version. However, in MATLAB 2014b student version you may use the following commands.

csvread Read comma-separated value (CSV) file

csvwrite Write comma-separated value file

dlmread Read ASCII-delimited file of numeric data into matrix

dlmwrite Write matrix to ASCII-delimited file

textscan Read formatted data from text file or string

readtable Create table from file

writetable Write table to file

type Display contents of file

Dears

TEXTSCAN Read formatted data from text file or string.

FSCANF Read formatted data from file.

Regards

textscanDemo - Reading Arbitrary Format Text Files with TEXTSCAN

fscanf - Read data from text file.

textscan - Read formatted data from text file or string.

sscanf - Read string under format control.

mspalign - aligns mass spectrometry peaks from different scans.

helscandeintrlv - Restore ordering of symbols in a helical pattern.

helscanintrlv - Permute symbols in a helical pattern.

mbcaddonscan - Scan for additional features

doabeamscandemo - Direction of Arrival Estimation with Beamscan and MVDR

scanradardemo - Scan Radar Using a Uniform Rectangular Array

gprotein - Parameter Scanning, Parameter Estimation, and Sensitivity Analysis in the Yeast Heterotrimeric G Protein Cycle