What exactly is Office Tools in the sharepoint Designer 2010 install?

I was looking for a solution to problems we have been having with Office 2003 and Sharepoint 2010 and I was able to fix it by installing Sharepoint Designer 2010. However I didn't want to install the entire Sharepoint Designer software on the clients PC
so I just installed Office Tools from the installer but I can't figure out what it's changing for this to work.
Can you give me an idea as to what exactly being installed in the Office Tools component of Sharepoint Designer?
Regards

According to you description,my understanding is you want to know how it fixed your problem by installing Office Tools.If yes,please refer the below description.
All Microsoft Office components from MS Office 2007 and newer contains a component (OWSSUPP.DLL) that implements full integration with SharePoint. Full integration is often noticed by the user in that it enables checking documents in and out from the application
(as opposed to manually checking out and downloading the document, open the application manually and work with the file, manually uploading the file to the right SharePoint site and checking it in again).
So when you install Office Tools in the Client machine,the above dll will get installed an enabled in the browser and user will get option to open the document/excel file from the SharePoint site using the local Office Product which was installed in the
client machine.That dll integrates the SharePoint application with Office Product.
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