diff --git a/mod/quiz/report/analysis/report.php b/mod/quiz/report/analysis/report.php
index a951f004a8e..1e221e8a903 100644
--- a/mod/quiz/report/analysis/report.php
+++ b/mod/quiz/report/analysis/report.php
@@ -529,6 +529,10 @@ class quiz_report extends quiz_default_report {
                         get_string('facilitytitle','quiz_analysis'), get_string('stddevtitle','quiz_analysis'),
                         get_string('dicsindextitle','quiz_analysis'), get_string('disccoefftitle','quiz_analysis'));
 
+        foreach ($headers as $key => $header) {
+            $headers[$key] = preg_replace('/<br[^>]*>/', ' ', $header);
+        }
+
         $col = 0;
         foreach ($headers as $item) {
             $myxls->write(2,$col,$item,$formatbc);
@@ -608,6 +612,10 @@ class quiz_report extends quiz_default_report {
                         get_string('facilitytitle','quiz_analysis'), get_string('stddevtitle','quiz_analysis'),
                         get_string('dicsindextitle','quiz_analysis'), get_string('disccoefftitle','quiz_analysis'));
 
+        foreach ($headers as $key => $header) {
+            $headers[$key] = preg_replace('/<br[^>]*>/', ' ', $header);
+        }
+
         $col = 0;
         foreach ($headers as $item) {
             $myxls->write(2,$col,$item,$formatbc);
@@ -642,6 +650,10 @@ class quiz_report extends quiz_default_report {
                         get_string('facilitytitle','quiz_analysis'), get_string('stddevtitle','quiz_analysis'),
                         get_string('dicsindextitle','quiz_analysis'), get_string('disccoefftitle','quiz_analysis'));
 
+        foreach ($headers as $key => $header) {
+            $headers[$key] = preg_replace('/<br[^>]*>/', ' ', $header);
+        }
+
         $text = implode("\t", $headers)." \n";
 
         $filename .= ".txt";