More than 200 states up to 4.1 MeV excitation have been populated in 168 Er with the 170 Er(p,t) reaction at 25 MeV incident energy. About 80 of these states, with 0 + and 2 + assignments, were reported in a previous publication (Phys. Rev C 73, 064309(2006)). The present work considerably enriches the knowledge of this nucleus. A multistep coupled-channel analysis of the angular distributions is now presented for all the states observed in this experiment. Spin and parity values between 0 + and 7 − are newly assigned for more than 100 states. For the states already reported in the ENSDF database with J π values there a good ageement with our values. The 168 Er nucleus remains one of the best experimentally known nuclei for states with low and medium spins below 4 MeV excitation energy, representing a challenge for future structure microscopic model calculations aiming to disentangle the contributions of different excitation degrees of freedom.