How to read an word document in matlab

Can we read an word document(.doc) by an command f开发者_开发技巧open in matlab 6.1?

If No please provide some information about the same.

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

I don't know about 6.1 but 7.10 will fopen a Word document. That's easy. The challenge is now to do something useful with its contents. Over to you.