Using this, I obtained data as a 1x1 cell in the workspace.
fid = fopen('mylist2.txt');
data = textscan(fid,'%s');
fclose(fid);
Using this, I obtained words5 as a 1x111022 char array in the workspace.
fileID = fopen('mylist.odt','r');
formatSpec = '%s';
words5 = fscanf(fileID,formatSpec);