Can Bad Formatting be Considered a Virus?

I have gone though a considerable amount of time, in complete and blissful ignorance of the ALL CAPS format in Microsoft Word. I came upon it suddenly, and by complete accident. I'm a bit mystified.

Is it for folks that can’t find the button that says “Caps Lock” on the keyboard?

Admittedly, The text saying “Caps Lock” was not written ALL IN CAPS, but it seems pretty straightforward. If I had to guess, I’d say that it locks the capitalization of the entered or selected text, and my next guess would be, that it would probably set the text capitalization to "on", as in "turn all typed text to caps".

I guess I've seen some word processing packages that toggle caps on OR off, so if caps were locked, and you typed a letter, it would come out capitalized, and vice-versa. Type an upper case letter, get a lower case letter. I guess there is that slim possibility that the useability team got together and said to themselves “what if the user thinks we mean to lock the capitalization in the "OFF" position ?". There wasn’t enough room on the top of that key to fit “Caps Locked ON” with a little drawing of one of those “Bride of Frankenstein” knife switches to make very very clear that it’s going to go “ON” when you push it.

The other possibility is that the designers thought that having the user go into the “Styles and Formatting” menu, and selecting the “ALL CAPS” format, and making sure that the format doesn’t blow up any of the rest of the formatting, was a good, a just, and a kind thing to do.

I must have copied in some text from somewhere and I thought my keyboard was flaking out. Could bad formatting be considered a virus?