The start and end annotations are pasted along with the other content, trying to update the styles leads to cycle and StackOverflowException is thrown. Workaround: Remove the comments from the document in the clipboard: void radRichTextBox_ActiveDocumentEditorChanged(object sender, Telerik.Windows.Documents.UI.ActiveDocumentEditorChangedEventArgs e) { if (e.DocumentEditorType == Telerik.Windows.Documents.UI.DocumentEditorType.Comment) { var currentEditor = this.radRichTextBox.ActiveDocumentEditor as RadRichTextBox; currentEditor.CommandExecuting += activeEditor_CommandExecuting; } } void activeEditor_CommandExecuting(object sender, CommandExecutingEventArgs e) { if (e.Command is PasteCommand) { RadDocument pastedDocument = ClipboardEx.GetDocument().ToDocument(); RadDocumentEditor editor = new RadDocumentEditor(pastedDocument); editor.DeleteAllComments(); ClipboardEx.SetDocument(new DocumentFragment(pastedDocument)); } }