"finalizing the document" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the act of completing a document. For example: "We need to finish up quickly; let's get to work on finalizing the document."
Rogers's recent play about the negotiation of the Oslo Accords, diplomats are finalizing the document when one of them reports a snag: "It's stuck in the copy machine and I can't get it out!" The employees in Mike Judge's 1999 film "Office Space" grow so frustrated with their jam-prone printer that they destroy it with a baseball bat in a slow-motion montage set to the Geto Boys' "Still".
A second draft is expected to be issued this fall in hopes of finalizing the document in early 2013.
IC wrote the first draft of the paper and the other authors contributed to editing and finalizing the document.
Your comments and advice at this Annual Session of the Executive Board will help the Secretariat in finalizing the document into a much shorter and crisper version, to be available in all UN languages, well in advance of our Second Regular Session in September.
We are, at this stage, looking for the most appropriate timing for finalizing the documents that will be adopted by the Summit and I think the political will can not be put at stake in this process.
Legislators finalized the document last week after a series of overnight sessions, cutting billions of dollars from social service programs.
In its earnings, Google reported $14.10 billion in revenue and an EPS of $6.53, missing most analysts' predictions.
When finalized the document will be populated with a list of bulk drug substances (Appendix A of FDA guidance) for use by outsourcing facilities.
There is a U.S. push to finalize the document, which would be non-binding and allow both sides to state their reservations, ahead of a scheduled Israeli release of another group of Palestinian prisoners at the end of March.
